hello, my name is john and i am a new member. i just want to show you guys and gals my silver certificate and how i acquired it. in my sophomore year(I'm a junior now) i was just coming back from lunch and had a fruit roll up that i was about to eat, my friend, Jake says "hey john, I'll give you $10 dollars for that." i say, "yeah...right." right then and there he whipped out a 10 dollar bill and gives it to me, but it wasn't just any normal 10 dollar bill! it was a 1934 silver certificate!!! now, i had known that he has these because in freshman year, i saw that he had a wad of it squeezed into his wallet and in there, I'd seen a $20 gold certificate too! i tried to tell him but he just kept saying "its just $20." he probably used it by now... so all in all, you could say i bought this for 50 cents since the fruit roll up was that much.
You should know that bill is most likely stolen, even if only from his father. That is not how I would want to start my collection. Having said that, I am glad that is has sparked your interest in collecting US currency.
not to be insulting, nor do i want to start a fight but... who cares if its stolen? HE didn't steal it he got it fair. It's not like he knew they were stolen and was like "hey man get as many as you can ill give you X amount for each one!" It also got him into collecting which these days seems to be extremely rare. Awesome note! I got a $5 silver cert cashiering recently an older retired gentleman paid for a newspaper with it, and i quickly informed my manager that id like to swap a $5 in my wallet for it, and she let me
but swapping one 5 at work for another is legal as long as the new money isnt counterfiet. it sounds like jonobo is gonna keep it but if this friend gets in deep .... because he took money (not just money but money worth more then face) that wasnt his jonobo may have to give it back.
Receiving stolen property is against the law. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to know that you were being paid with stolen money. In this case, you have a teenager spending a 1934 $10 note on a $0.50 piece of candy. It seems painfully obvious that the notes were stolen. Perhaps you don't feel that teaching the youth of our country a sense of ethics is important, but I do. This is not something the OP should be proud to own, plain and simple. I see no ethical dilemma in the way that you acquired your note. In your words, you got it fair. The OP did not get his note fair IMO. Unfortunately, there is really nothing he can do at this point other than keep the note.
why should he be proud? prove its stolen then maybe right now you can only assume i say keep being proud about it i think this is going to become a flame topic becuase people assumed its stolen the guy might just be stupid none of us truely know
