Hello All four notes were picked from circulation by a store owner friend of mine. Would any of them be considered keepers? Do any of the notes carry a premium? Thanks luke
Forgive my ignorance on paper...I may well be missing something, but they appear to be nothing more than old circulated notes to me... ?? :scratch: ??
All spenders, with no premium above face value. I don't want to sound like I'm going off on luke420, or get on a rant, but questions like these, about notes like these, is the reason the coin side of Coin Talk has a separate area called "what's it worth" with over 9,100 threads, (paper money has just over 6,500).
I also don't wish to sound like I'm "going off" on anyone, and am genuinely asking for an education here, luke...why is it you thought/think they might be worth something?
Why anyone would encourage someone to post outside of the paper section forum of this site is beyond me. If someone wants to know about their paper money, the paper money forum is the place to go. Paper collectors are a minority on this site, which is largely devoted to coins. Someone would be more likely to get the most knowledge, the most exposure and the best answers about the value of their notes by posting in this section of the forum. Now, to get onto what the OP was asking about. Those notes are all highly historic and it was nice of luke420 to post about them. After carefully reviewing the photos, I feel that the 1974 $10 note with serial # F98063666B is the keeper of the bunch. It is in reasonably nice condition and notes from 1974 just don't turn up too often. Infact, I have never found a $10 note from 1974 and I have gone through quite a few $10 notes in my time.
My post was misunderstood, and I did let luke know this was the right forum. I also PM'd luke letting him know I didn't intend to make him feel uncomfortable, and if I did, I was sorry. I was trying to point out that the COIN forum had so many new collectors starting threads with circulated 1974 nickels, circulated 1988 pennies (cents), and other common, circulated modern era coins and not willing to do any research as to the value, that implemented a "what's it worth" area of the forum for coins. They also implemented [h=2]Numismatic Resources[/h] to help them find answers to their common coin questions. I feel the paper money forum also needs a "what's it worth" sub-forum along with numismatic resources so new collectors can learn through research and become a better collector and contributor.
Hear hear... strongly in favor as well. Everyone's ATM pulls and Chuck E. Cheese change finds can be queried and separate the wheat from the chaff, topic wise. A BST forum would also be appropriate I would think - keep the currency folks from clogging up an already busy coin forum, and keep the coins from overwhelming any currency BSTs...
I see what you're saying. I can see the frustration where people find older notes in circulation and are curious to know about their finds and clog up the forum. However, I don't really think a separate "what's it worth?" type forum is really necessary. Take a look at the first page of this currency forum. At the time of this writing the threads go back 5 days to when someone last posted on a thread so it is not like this part of the forum is used all that much. Check out the main "Coin Chat" and "US Coins Forum" and one will see that every thread on the first page was last posted on today. Anyway, I don't think someone asking about their circulation currency finds periodically is really that much of an issue on this part of the forum. In fact, I like it when someone asks about their 1970s and 1980s era notes as finding those is so much more rare and uncommon when compared to coins from circulation of the same time period.
Haha... Who's clogging up the forum? Everytime I get on here to check and see all of the new threads, there aren't even that many new ones.... At max, there will be 2 new forums started a day, and not every time is even one of those about old circulated finds... OP: As for what I would do, keep the $10's and spend the $20. But that's me. I spend lots of money on finds like that. If money is tighter, as NOS has suggested, just keep the nicer '74 $10. And no, none have any premiums.
IMO, I would spend the notes on something that will have better value over time paper money-wise. I used to hold onto every decent looking old note I had and continued to be surprised when the green sheet and/or other currency value guides kept showing that they had not increased at any signifcant rate compared to large-size notes, better star notes, and so forth. I now only keep something that I like, or star notes. Everything else will eventually go towards a better purchase. With that in mind, I do not believe that your notes would command any premium in their condition.
Keep in mind that condition often dictates use - the park is run down because nobody uses it, or does nobody use it because it's run down? If the currency forum is just a place for coin guys to ask if they can flip a profit on a bill they found in grandma's old purse, then it will never be more. A spot will often live up to the reputation it has earned - this is makeout point, because all the kids make out there. So where do all the kids go to make out? Makeout point...
