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Message:: [QUOTE="David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2565904, member: 74719"]I once bought a small size National Bank note at an estate auction from a local bank in a very small town. I knew what they were then worth, bought it for $90 and listed it in the once free classified ads in Numismatic News for $189.95. I received about 15 checks or requests for that note. Being younger and not yet knowing that Kelly had a book on these type notes, I didn't realize that there were TWO banks from that small town and the one I had was the discovery note being the first ever found. It changed hands  three or four times quickly after making the cover of Bank Note Reporter and ended up in the mid four figures. I was sick over it for months. I bought the book.  Ax a follow up, about 10 years later, I stumbled across a hoard owned by the former president of this bank. There were two uncut sheets of notes, $10 and $20, number one serial numbers and 47 single consecutive serial numbers in CU and one tired, wore out yellowed note he had carried in his wallet. I bought the entire lot and still have five or six of them. That bank went fro the rarest to one of the most common nearly overnight and every single one went through my hand.[/QUOTE]