Interesting Find From Circulation

Older-styled Federal Reserve notes will have a bold capital letter printed to the left of the portrait on the obverse. The letter will correspond to a number printed on all 4 corners of the bill, the one assigned to the particular branch bank of the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Reserve bank's city and state are printed in a circular manner around the letter. For example, my San Francisco bill has an "L" and the number "12," L being the 12th letter of the alphabet, with "The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco California" printed around the L.

 

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ohhh, alright, thanks
so its fairly apparent then

 

wow, some good stuff today!

-West Virginia quarter.
-1946 D - Nickel
-1946 S - Nickel
-1964 Half Dollar

 

Its not a coin, but I received a 1928 $20 Gold Certificate last week. Its only the second Gold Certificate that I've found.

 

Is it a "Gold Certificate" or is a Federal Reserve Note that is "Redeemable in Gold". The two are easily confused, I know that I confused them the first time I got a FRN that said "redeemable in gold".

This is a Gold Cert, note the gold stamp and the "Gold Certificate" notation:


This is a FRN, notice the "Redeemable in gold on demand" notation:



The "real" Gold Certs are much more valuable, and like I said I mistook a FRN for a Gold Cert the first time I ever came across one.

Either way it is a nice find! let us know which it is.

 

Yes it is actually a gold certificate. I also have a bunch of series 1928 and 1934 FRNs along with 50 or so silver certificates and 2 United States notes. I work at a bank and have instucted the tellers to show me any old bills that look "funny". It still amazes me how much of this good old stuff is out there. Its a rare week when I don't get a bill series 1950 or older.

 

cool, that's a very nice find! I knew you were a banker from your posts in the searching half dallar rolls thread, I just know that my bankers were all clueless when they found an AU 1928 $100 FRN and asked me if wanted "this old hundred dollar gold certificate?" They'd never seen one before, so I wondered if you ever had, obviously you have . Anyway I wasn't trying to underestimate your knowledge and I'm glad for you that it was a gold cert!

 

Found this coin today, looks like a veteran memorial coin...


And I found this in pocket change, its a Hong Kong 10 cent, about the same size as a Canadian dime...

 

Found a few goodies today. A 1919 Wheatie, 1967 ms65rd Canadian Bicentennial cent and a 1995-p dime missing it's clad on both sides.

 

Pyro, the Canadian Penny is a Centenial, because its only 100 years

 

I got a 1919 Canadian quarter 92.5% silver. Only the second time I have gotten a silver quarter in circulation, and the first time was only 50% silver 1968 quarter. Also it is also only the second time I found a pre-1920's coin.

 

The dime is missing its clad? From the picture it looks dirty. If it isn't good find i guess.

 

Went to the bank today and I asked for half dollars. The girl said she just got in 6 rolls and also she had 2 Ikes and a loose half I said i would take them. She gave me the change and one of the quarters was silver. When she got back I asked her if she had any more silver quarters. She looked and she had 1 more and a silver dime. When I got home i went through the 6 rolls and I found 43 40% halfs, 6 1964 halfs, 2 Franklins and a Walker. It was a great day banking.

 

Great pull Smith!

 

1957P Roosevelt Dime.

:smile :smile

 

nothing much today, found a '54 nickel from some change in a coke machine.

and a star note, but it was so worn it wasnt worth it to keep.

 

change

A buddy at work lets me look through his change jar at work, and to day I found a 56 D wheaty in vf, a 54 D in vf and a 47 D nickle in g to vg. Not much but still fun to find in pocket change!

 

nothing much here.. just a BU west virgina..

 

Here's a really interesting find from circulation. A customer just came into the bank and dumped a small part of his collection! Included is $200 face of old Silver Certificates and US notes. Most interesting, in my opinion, are two 1934-D $5 Silver Certs in sequencial order! There are also two 1953 $5 Silver Certs in order! I'll post some pics in the Paper money Forum. This is just the first installment of $6,000.00 face value of old paper money he has collected over the years. He told me that he's gonna bring it in a bit at a time so that I can afford to buy it from the teller's boxes! He's one cool old guy!

 

WOW-$6000 FACE, I would buy every last note even if I had to go into debt to do it.
Do you realize even a common circulated $1 silver cert sell for roughly $3 on E-bay?
The $5 SILVER CERTS (circ) GO FOR $8-$10,It sounds like your in a win win situation, congratulations I’m jealous.

I’M thinking about a new career as a bank teller