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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26229661, member: 4626&quot;]I found one of these in circulation years ago, nearly uncirculated, so I thought may as well keep it.&nbsp; It only cost me $1 after all, and it has an interesting story if not a lot of value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Joseph Barr was the acting Secretary of the Treasury from December 1968 until Nixon&#039;s inauguration in 1969.&nbsp; A new series of bills was authorized, Series 1963B, with his signature.&nbsp; (Interestingly enough Katheryn Granahan had already resigned her position by this point, but her signature was still used).&nbsp; People assumed this series of notes would be rare, since he&#039;d only be acting secretary for about a month.&nbsp; But once the series was authorized, they printed millions of them, well into 1969 (they&#039;re not required to end a series just because the year it was authorized ends).&nbsp; So they were not at all rare as people assumed.&nbsp; Still, a lot of people saved them, believing they would go up in value eventually.&nbsp; But since so many were saved, they are not at all rare in uncirculated or about uncirculated condition, and still don&#039;t have a high value (unless they have &quot;fancy&quot; serial numbers or something).</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, it&#039;s an interesting piece of history anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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