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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2025924, member: 19065&quot;]It was a keen eye to spot the &quot;fancy SN&quot; and it is pretty widely known that some notes command a premium for such things. I have bought a few and have found some as well but don&#039;t go out of my way to find them for my collection, nor bid higher or pay significantly more to obtain them because of it. For examples of what these are and can be traded for, usually in high grade examples, see: <a href="http://coolserialnumbers.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coolserialnumbers.com/" rel="nofollow">coolserialnumbers.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many collectors of coins seem to forget, or dismiss entirely, that notes are numismatics too and thus carry grades due to condition and this in turn effects values, but so too does rarity and as we know notes are increasingly printed in vast numbers. many collectors don&#039;t think long enough about it, that paper is more easily damaged and thus looses it&#039;s appeal to many collectors by being creased, discolored and worn. Many don&#039;t think to add a paper money guide as readily as they added a Red Book to their numismatic library, either!</p><p><br /></p><p>Fancy SNs are an area some collectors find a bonus to collecting finer notes, but there are scads of others overly hopeful that repeating patterns in serial numbers will somehow automatically intone a great sense of value. Sure, finding them is somewhat hard to do and there are just one of each of them out there. Many feel lucky to have gotten hold of one. But not all notes are rare series. Many are abundant in printage (mintage) and an SN alone will not mean the note ought to be regarded more valuable nor rare because of it. I am sure that if coins had them, the same would happen there too, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Threads like this one become like a line of lemmings marching off the cliff... why do they keep coming? There&#039;s plenty of information out there, such as checking guidebooks for currency series that are rare or completed auction listings to find similar examples and extrapolate some semblance of a grade and potential value. The same is true in coin forums of people seeking info about &quot;error coins&quot; only be be told infinityly, &quot;PMD&quot;. Yet these threads almost always get posted and crash down the lemming-cliff, every time. Of course, not everyone is a note collector and so seeks these sorts of places to ask about it, but there is a mountain of similar threads that should illustrate the unlikely chance, similar to hitting a lottery almost, that these notes culled from circulation are going to be rare, and furthermore, valuable just because of the serial number.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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