I was finishing up a coin collecting merit badge with a group of Boy Scouts last night. One of them brought in his modest collection. He had a small stack of bills, and included were seven 1976 $2 bills which I judged to be in mint state condition (but I'm a coin guy, not a paper guy). I noticed they had sequential serial numbers! He had inherited them from his grandfather, and had not noticed the sequential serial numbers before. I don't recall how many notes are in one sheet, but I would guess it's more than 7. He wanted to know if collectors would pay a premium for the sequentially numbered notes, and I said they might pay a small one; these aren't rarities by any means, but it's just pretty neat.
32 notes on a sheet of 1976 $2 bills, but all 7 notes would have come from seven different sheets. The modern notes of today are not consecutive on a sheet. The notes are distributed in consecutive packs of 100, so being consecutive rarely adds any value. Mint State is a coin term. The term used for really nice, uncirculated paper money is GEM. Do you have the serial numbers, including the prefix and suffix letters ?
