Dont know to much about these so take a look and give me your opinnion if I should bite. http://cgi.ebay.com/2-NOTE-MIRROR-I...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5888582040 Plus the one is also a star note so a little bonus.
Is this a joke? Am I completely missing something...? or has someone spent an inordinate amount of time to get two sets of SNs backward and forward from completely different Series in hand to pretend like this means something A radar has to occur on the same note, not across two completely separate notes. Right? As for the star note, it's heavily circulated, creased and off center. These are worth face and only worth spending. IMO.
Look at the seller's other items--he's got quite a lot of random-looking matched-serial pairs, too, like two different notes with serial 02613877. He's been selling pairs like this for years. It seems like just about every pair consists of one slightly-collectible note (like a recent-series star note or circulated silver certificate) and one CU note that's got no claims to collectibility at all. So my guess is, this guy's got a hoard of thousands of slightly-collectible notes, and he's got all their serials entered in a database. Then he goes to the bank, gets a few bricks of $1's or $2's, and checks them against his database for matches. If you do the math, the matched pairs would actually be surprisingly easy to find, once he'd got the startup work done of gathering and indexing several dozen thousand serial numbers.... I don't think I've seen these "mirror" pairs offered before, but I guess they're a somewhat logical extension of the same phenomenon. I agree that the term "radar" doesn't apply, though....
I will play devil's advocate for this guy. Folks collect US notes in all sorts of number combinations, right? The first time someone came up with collecting by serial numbers, I bet folks laughed at the idea. Since then folks have been coming up with what could be called "wacky" combinations of "binary", "ladder" and all sorts of other numerical feats. More "wackiness" for anyone that didn't think of it first. How about pairs of notes with sequential SN's - yet another way to try to raise the curiosity of a collector. While this "mirror" idea may not currently be a commonly collected SN combination, I don't see much different from what has been going on for quite a while. If collectors decide it's a cool and/or "rare" item, they will buy them. Dave
I suppose I'd be more impressed if the seller managed to pair up notes of the same series and district.
I'm not too excited about "mirror" bills. This pair is something to get excited about. The first bill has mismatched serial numbers. The second bill has a missing digit but the second number matches the first number on the first bill! I don't own this pair but I sure wish I did!
Funny, I thought I was the only one that would care to have a PI bill... I already collect prime number bills... And as for the OP, the ebay listing seems a little gimmicky... I like single radar notes, but if you have a series of any two radars, they make a radar when put together... Also, if you stick any two notes like in the listing on the end of other pairs like it, you would still have a LARGER series of radar numbers... Or you could stick a random radar in the middle of the two and have a series of three that would make a radar number... Or to get really extreme, if you had dozens of pairs of these, you could stick them in an order that would give you ONE LONG RADAR number... Gimmick, I tell ya!... but fun nonetheless...
I must be the weird-do here. I have thought about those notes a lot. I like the idea of mirror numbers. I like numbers, and the idea of order seemed rather magical to me. Overall, the notes appeared to be in good enough shape. I am sort of glad that there is not much competition to acquire notes like these. They strike me as quite special.
Collect what interests you. I know someone that collects (his) birthday notes. It doesn't cost him a lot and he enjoys them. When you see 20 or so notes with the same serial number, it's pretty cool.
