Hi Guys My son recently aquired a few of these from an older man after helping him with some yard work. I have had silver certs in the past that were in rough condition and basically worthless but I have never seen them this crisp and in sets of 5 with a cardboard back. I can not locate anything like them on ebay or google. Could anyone give me more info on them and if they are worth anything more than the normal BU bills?
It hurts the value if anything by adding glue to the edge of the note. See http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Bill-Pad/ for creating your own. These did not come from the BEP this way. I'm not quite sure why he did this with silver certs, if he made this recently. Perhaps it was made when these were in circulation.
I find it hard to believe someone would do that to uncirculated bills. I hope that is not the case. I did not mention they are all consecutive serial numbers.
Back when they were in circulation they were just five ordinary dollar notes worth $1 each. You get a bundle of crisp new note at the bank, separate them into groups of five with a cardboard of the same size between them, apply a rubber cement type adhesive to one end and let dry. Separate them at the cardboards and you have 20 little novelty "Peel off a dollar" pads.
I have seen them in the past, but do not know why. At our coin club, one member brought some for show and tell, $1.00 and $2.00. It is easy to glue them in a press, when new. I was a printer at one time, and we made scratch pads, writing pads and other pads for the insurance co.:thumb:
it use to be a very common practice years ago. i would also agree that it would hurt the value having the notes glued together. even if they are in gem condition.
