my wife went to walmart this morning to make a return,and the cashier gave her two sequential bills in perfect shape.(uc) It is a shame,some of the other serials almost matched.they were close.the cashier did not have a clue. they are 2006 atlanta 1$ notes.this never happens,so I am exited. I am Thankful that my wife looks for irregularities like this..
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s87/peteavery/P1191023.jpg here is a pic. also here is a pic of the 2 bills that almost matched. is there any value in these? http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s87/peteavery/P1191024.jpg
I think they are kind of cool to get but probably not that uncommon. I got 10 sequential $10 bills from the bank right before Christmas. I hung onto them for a few days but ended up spending them. TC
I work at a grocery store and at one point, all we had was sequential bills. Very hard to count. Usually just checked the first and last number. I put 5 in the safe deposit box to hang on to. Had one lady pay me with 3 1976 $2 bills in order. I definately kept those.
yes getting sequential bills isn't that uncommon. i can get you any denomination u want in sequential notes. they dont carry much premium(if any at all) unless they are older notes or maybe star notes. nice pickup anyways. :thumb:
ok ,I was exited but It does not look like this is as big as I thought. I never found anything like this before.I am still holding on to them,regardless. Thanks for your input.
no need to lose the excitement. i would hold on to them also if i were you. nothing like those first few circulation finds. that is the way i started. i just found cool notes in circulation and from there expanded my collection as i expanded my knowledge on currency.
Pete... FYI... There were 1,081,600,000 notes printed.. Thats 1 billion 81 million, 600 hundred thousand notes printed. I would spend em...but hey, thats just me... Nice finds but keep on looking. Regards, RickieB
I agree completely. I used to work at a bank and I dealt with new sequential bills all the time...I hated counting them.
When I worked as a cashier at Sam's Club we would get pretty big sequences of fresh bills all the time to give out as change. Usually from the Kansas City branch (as makes sense, it's the closest one to us). It was nice because it made them easy to count. For some reason we ended up with a lot of silver dimes there. I'd always buy 2 or 3 out of the drawer almost every day.
As any banker or cashier can tell you, when the bills are brand new they tend to stick together. This makes them a pain to count as you can easily skip bills when they stick.
Ask yourself this, Do I want to keep them for their novelty value, or their investment value? I'm a "collector" first and an investor after that. You got a thrill finding these, by keeping them you'll always remember that, and your subsequent search for their significance and financial value, perhaps an new interest. There are people who collect currency simply because of the unique of odd serial numbers. Unfortunately bills with sequential numbers are not that high on the list. I wish it were not so as I have two Millennium Dollar Sets and the $1 bills have sequential serial numbers. Something interesting about your bills is the recurrence of double digits. I once made a small premium selling a $20 bill which was all double digits. I got $35 for it. Some examples of Serial Number order that will bring a premium. Bills with all the same number i.e. 22222222 Bills with sequentially intact serial numbers either ascending or descending i.e. 34567890, 87654321. Staircase/Ladder Notes where the serial numbers consistently either ascend or descend. ie: 13457890, 98754321. Radar Notes where the numbers seem to ping back & forth i.e. 12344321. There are others for those who like to collect interesting serial numbered bills. The key is, does it bring you pleasure to keep these, if so, then hold onto them, maybe as a reminder of how you go yourself started collecting currency with interesting serial numbers!
Nice get!! You will find alot of these at super markets as well especially In the automated checkout crisp unc note,s many in order!!
Why not run them through a currency counting machine? My bank does this all the time. But they are hard to count individually as they do stick.
When I worked at the bank, that's what I did if I could get to one...we only had 2 of the machines. Unfortunately, sometimes the machines also had a hard time separating new bills so they would jam up occasionally. But, those machines do wrinkle up the bills a bit and damage their collector value.
