District Currency Collectors Group

Knowledge, maybe. Budget, decidedly not, I'm afraid.... Part of the reason I collect currency data is that it's a whole lot cheaper than collecting actual currency!

 

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I must add Numbers, your knowledge and insight is greatly appreciated by all of us here at CT. I have learned much from your posts, and would like to thank you for what you add here. :bow:

 

Well at least there would be a standard size then I could put something together to make it work

 

Well your knowledge is appreciated here

As for currency collecting do you not collect any at all?
Why not pick a district then and just do the $1's they are cheap. But I do understand about funds being tight.

 

I collect a few things, but they're pretty much all related to my attempts to work out and/or verify the serial number data.

For example, I've got a long-term project of trying to reconstruct the gaps in the serial numbering of the 18- and 32-subject silver certificate star notes. Leaving out the technical explanations, we know how many gaps exist in each series, how long the gaps are, and where they can fall (always at the start of a print run). So theoretically, it's possible to identify the gaps by process of elimination: just check off all the runs that *don't* have gaps, by finding a note from each one, and what's left are the runs with the gaps.

Unfortunately, the total number of print runs is often quite large (several hundred per series in some cases). I don't believe I could record that much data without making a single typo, and of course one typo is enough to completely wreck a process-of-elimination analysis. So I've been trying to actually *collect* one star note from the relevant range of each print run, to make a reference set. I've got close to 600 carefully selected $1 SC stars so far, and that's not even a third of the total I'll eventually need.... But it's already getting rather tough to find notes that advance the project, because I've already got most of the easy ones, so quite a lot of the notes I look at now fall into runs I've already got.

Building a set like this puts me into a rather nonstandard collecting mindset. For one thing, a VF note and a Gem CU note will serve my purposes equally well, but the VF is a whole lot cheaper (and a VG with graffiti is cheaper still). So I frequently find myself turning down high-grade notes, if they're from runs that are common enough that I think I can find a lower-grade example later (or if they're from series that are just too expensive in CU). For another thing, I have to hunt down all of the notes personally--I can't just call up a dealer and ask whether he's got a 1935F $1 star note from run #261, because nobody sorts notes that way, because nobody except me collects like this!

Fortunately, I'm the right sort of crazy that this kind of thing appeals to me. Unfortunately, most other collectors are a different sort of crazy than I am, so they don't tend to "get" it.

(But if this kind of project actually sounds like fun to you, then the FRN stars from 1950A through 1974 still need to be worked on. I've recorded some data on them, but I've never even tried to start a collection because of the expense involved....)

 

Hmmm well I think my district set has my hands full right now
Plus I"m one of those that only kind of "gets it" lol
What do you do for a living btw?

 

Numbers: That is a really impressive challenge you have set out for yourself and I really admire the time you spend explaining what it is you do, because frankly, the numbers-game (pun intended), sort of baffles my understanding or scope of currency-imagination still. I just need pictures to explain the process you are undertaking I guess. LOL! Anyway.

I also think it's safe to say that most currency collectors have a touch of that 'crazy' for which you speak about in them or else why would we be here and doing this activity that entertains us so very much...

 

+1

 

A few more $1 STL FRNs...

F-1903H: $1 1969 SN: H21000020A




F-1903H* $1 1969 SN: H03669692*




F-1907H* $1 1969-D SN: H01541981*




F-1922H $1 1995 SN: H43629998C




I have a few more notes on the way, $1s: 1969-C, 1988-A and a 1995 repeater and a $5 1950-B star that I'll post soon too.

 

Nice p/u's Krispy, I like the # on that first note. I'll have a few new ones to post tomorrow.

 

Nice notes.
I too liked that S/N...off I go to get some of mine going.
Too bad I'm just not seeing KC notes much but when I get them it'll be that much sweeter!!

 

Thanks guys. I'm having trouble finding St. Louis notes myself, especially ones that aren't just fancy SNs in high grades or very high priced graded examples. I'm more than fine with starting out in ChCU notes with regular SNs and the ones seem easy to come by with certain years $10s or $50s next, but $5s and especially $20s seem more hidden in my searches. I am interested in nice SNs and nice graded examples, it's just that I'm not seeing much I want (want to pay for) and I'm wary of going to eBay too often knowing of the problems one can have from unknown Sellers there on occasion. While I'm glad to have found these latest notes and the few others I have on the way, I also lost two HA auctions for some nice $5s and tried to bid some $10s and a nice graded $5 on eBay this week only to be out sniped by very small increments. The search goes on...

 

Duke, there's going to be a decent amount of Currency lots auctioned in an upcoming TeleTrade auction on Monday April 12th from 3pm - 10pm EST. You might take a look there. They auction graded lots only, usually PCGS and PMG only.

There are some (8) numerals in that auction that I'm watching but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to score them. I've been looking for them but they are pretty tough to locate for St Louis (and for my current budget considerations).

 

Here are a few new notes for the Cleveland guy.....
1995 Clev. Web

1934 Clev. $10

1950A Clev. $5

1950B Clev. $10

1950C Clev. $10

 

Oooh! Very nice $5s and $10s... esp the light green seal. I'm trying to get more of them for St Louis district.

Nicely done!

 

Whoa Penny...nice I'm gonna have to switch to Cleveland at that rate

Krispy, I've already checked out the TeleTrade and there is 2 KC's I think that I'm tracking so we'll see...thanks.

I too find more special S/N's then anything. It's like KC is only worth saving if it's a fancy? lol
I keep telling myself it's not a race. There are plenty out there and am thinking about going to the Memphis show just for this now as if there out there they'd be there right?

 

Duke you might contact these folks with your wish list and be specific about what district you are working on, they list a lot of gem and CHCU notes by block numbers but have a rather complete inventory of FRNs: fstctycurr.com

 

Ohh that is a new one.
Thanks!

 

You're welcome. :thumb:

 

Been around the block... Repeater?

F-1922H $1 1995 SN: H33999333I

This note has certainly seen better days, been around the block, creases, dirty, has a spot on the reverse in the margins... oh well, is the SN considered a repeater?