Is there a thread that explains?

Is there a thread that explains all the numbers on US paper money, what makes it collectable, and what each or certain grades look like with pictures? I know that's a long question but I see alot paper everyday and thought I might look for something besides stars if there was more to collcting than that.
Thanks for reading Kent

 

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The numbers on US paper money: http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/note.html

A glossary of terms: http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/glossary.html

Grades with pictures: http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/grading.html

I hope it helps you!

 

Also:

www.uspapermoney.info for serial numbers - all you could ever want -- and more!!

 

A FANCY NUMBER with ASTERISK* is a candidate for a RARE COLLECTIONs of PAPER CURRENCY including Series of Let's say 1976 Series..Cleveland District. Here's one of my Example of UNCUT SHEET of 4 D 0 111 9 111 *

 

I collect what I want to collect and thats that. If I want to save a one dollar bill because its a one dollar bill, thats what I'll do. Thats what makes this a hobby and not an investment. If you collect for investment purposes, there is certainly a fine line of what to save and what not to save. This is a site that I used to learn about errors and fancy serial numbers and star notes. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.fstctycurr.com/

Check out his personal collection as well as what listed for sale.

 

Thats good stuff tbud thanks.

 

No worries. IMO, he has some really good deals - particularly on Web notes. I bought all my Web's off of him. If you wanted to get a Series star set going, thats the place to start too. If I'm not mistaken, you could get one example of every $1 star note in UNC condition from him from Series 1963-present reasonbly priced. I was going to start doing that, but I decided to put it on hold until I am a little more secure financial wise. If any of you guys end up buying from him, tell him Travis Budwiser sent you his way. I'd sure appreciate it.

-Trav

 

WOW! Clay, I've been to your web pages in the past when you have shared links for various things in these forums. I had not seen these pages yet myself. These are very handy to know about and I have bookmarked them. It's brilliant work you've done putting this information together. This is a really nice reference tool online for many numismatists with the occasional Paper Money question, which is readily understandable upon reading. Many sites can be technical or gloss over details. I think yours really covers everything in detail, but doesn't obscure things with too much technical language and statistics. It's equally useful to those who are more deeper into Paper Money and like to refer to a tool like this when looking something up or pointing others in the right direction for information. Thanks for sharing. Kudos!

 

You made those sites back in '95? Real nice work and that would have been helpful for me when I first started collecting 3 years ago. Are the notes you use for examples from your personal collection?

 

Excellent resource, thanks a lot for sharing. I`ve been looking in Google for resources like this and never seen it, it deserves much better SEO work for rankings and its own domain. If you ever consider renovations, I`ll be glad to help (I am developing/designing websites and doing SEO work since 2007).

 

The paper money section wasn't started in 1995, but other sections of my Web site were.

Most of the notes are from my collection. For the glossary and grading pages, I had to find some examples elsewhere.

 

Thanks, Krispy. I'm constantly tinkering with it, organizing it better, and adding more content as I run across interesting things.

 

As everyone else is saying: great page!

I'm confused by the "832 bills per serial number" thing, though. There are 32 bills per *sheet* (not per run), but they don't all have the same serial number.... Why are you multiplying the number of bills per sheet by the number of possible suffix letters?

I think what you want to say is: There are 32 bills per sheet and 200,000 sheets per run, so there are 6,400,000 bills per run. Then there are 15 runs per block, so there are 96,000,000 bills per block. Then there are 24 possible block letters (no O or Z), so the BEP can print up to 2,304,000,000 bills for a given FRB before running out of serial numbers (which did happen for two FRBs in the 1995 $1's). Then there are 12 FRBs, so a single series could theoretically include as many as 27,648,000,000 bills (the longest ever was the 1995 $1 at 18,585,600,000, just over two-thirds of the theoretical maximum).

For $50's and $100's the runs are 100,000 sheets, so the calculation changes a bit. And in the old days, the BEP used smaller run sizes like 40,000 or 20,000 or 8000 sheets....

 

That's probably not the first, last, or only mistake I made. :smile Thanks for the correction.

 

I did start my own site once having all that information but I shut it down when I didn't get any views and I didn't really know how to advertise it for cheap. I made it through Yola. I'm actually not a bad site maker, surprisingly.

 

Who needs Google? Great links... page bookmarked!

 

I so need to dig through my small head put-backs...my knowledge of "rare or collectable" is very elementary. I have simply been keeping all small heads I can find and the nicest big heads. With the new $100, I guess I need to get some samples stashed away of the older bills

 

Do you know how to check for stars?

 

If you have any questions about what you have, please post them. In my opinion, most small heads are keepers, since they are few and far between, these days.

 

Yep I know the basics but I am not all that familiar print run numbers for scarcity.