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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2480331, member: 11668&quot;]Yes, the Barr notes have always been popular.&nbsp; Everyone who knows anything about collecting paper money has heard of Barr who was only in office for a month.&nbsp; So if you&#039;ve got some of these for sale, you won&#039;t have trouble finding someone interested in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of availability, though, the Barr notes aren&#039;t the scarcest $1 FRNs, because so many of them were saved when they first came out.&nbsp; Barr had already left office when most of these notes hit the streets, and a lot of folks were on the lookout for the new rarities.&nbsp; Nearly fifty years later, they&#039;re still coming out of people&#039;s sock drawers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much tougher to find today are the 1969A and 1969C $1 FRNs, which had printages nearly as low as the 1963B Barr notes, but a lot less publicity.&nbsp; (None of their signers had extremely short terms; it was just that a change in Secretary followed soon after a change in Treasurer, so a signature *combination* had a rather short duration.)&nbsp; For comparison, the quantities printed were:</p><p><br /></p><p>1963B: 458,880,000</p><p>1969C: 543,680,000 (only 18% higher than the Barr notes!)</p><p>1969A: 632,960,000 (only 38% higher than the Barr notes)</p><p><br /></p><p>And to put those numbers in some context:</p><p><br /></p><p>1969B: 1,690,080,000 (the next lowest $1 FRN--quite a jump)</p><p>2009: 9,017,600,000 (fairly typical for recent series)</p><p>1995: 18,585,600,000 (the all-time record--40 times the Barr total!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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