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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RickieB, post: 1145927, member: 2486&quot;]I would like for you to think beyond that date and return to the times of 1928 thru the 1930&#039;s.</p><p>Today in many collections you will find Gem notes from all date ranges, however, some are scarce. There has always been different classes of people with different levels of income. Back during the hard times of the 30&#039;s, $20 was a rather large amout of money for someone of moderate means to put back and save, however, some people did. Top income earners, Bankers and affluent people had extra cash on hand and cash was king.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at all the printed info on banknotes printed for each Series there are different figures for each denom and Series as well. What we do not know is how many &quot;surrived&quot; these times. Of recent times mid 80&#039;s to current TPG have been recording such information and you can easily see Small Size Notes that only a few examples are extant in Gem Grades. This is one reason that I feel the Small Size Series of banknotes will become even more popular with time in high grade examples. Now this is just my belief and founded on nothing but personal observation and collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The possibilities and probabilities of extant hoards out there undiscovered are very real, people find things all the time. So give a little thought to how that note may have found it&#039;s way into circ and you will derive some of the following; Unemployed person who used what they had stashed away, kid got into dads collection, Senior Citizen spending what they once put back out of necessity, person coming into a collection by inheritance and not knowing or caring about the value. You see you can just not pinpoint a cause, just think 20 years from now someone will ask about a 1985 banknote in Gem and how odd it is to find one so nice..heck it could come from any of us collectors of current.</p><p><br /></p><p>RickieB[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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