Awhile ago I started to collect the state quarters. I've always been a coin collector, but I mostly did foreign coin collecting. Then little by little I found odd bills (ie silver cert) and decided I'd make a small paper collection as well. Well, now I've added the red seals and such into my collection that I decided I want to collect every minted year for $1-$100 (well at least those listed on wheresgeorge.com... anytime before that will mostly likely have to be bought from ebay) So far, this is what i've collected (and stored in individual sleeves): $1: 2003 (w/ star), 2003A, 2001,99,95,93,88A,74, 69D,35F $2: 2003, 95 (4 of which have succesive serial #'s), 76 $5: 2003,99,93,77,74,63 (w/ star), 63(w/out star) $10: 2003, 1993, 69 $20: 81, 34 $50: 81 $166 for a total of each year that I have collected... those hundreds are going to kill me!!! I have a bunch of repeated years that i found in succession, so the serial numbers are only a number off. I had a hundred, but i needed to spend it for xmas :goofer:
Was the hundred any good?? I am obsessed with old-style 100's (..yet I've never seen one in person...). I also have a 1981 $50 bill, crispy but has a funky rust-looking mark at the top.
Funny, I picked up an older-style $100 this week, and a $50 too. I hadn't seen either in years. They aren't perfect but are still pretty nice. One of my tellers saved them for me. She also had a $10 bill from 1934, so I took all three.
I've been toying with the of collecting an example of each branch $1 every year, but wow, each donomination for each year going way back....good luck and have fun
I have a couple ?'s... first, is a bill with a counterfeit test mark worth keeping? (it's barely visible but appearant) second, is a bill with pen marking worth keeping? i know if it's a lot, i don't bother third... out of curiosity, what does the star in the serial really mean? my update: $1: 2003A(2), 2003*(2), 2001(1), 1999(2), 1995(3), 1993(1), 1988A(1), 1985(1), 1974(1), 1969D(2), 1935F(1) $2: 2003(3), 1995(6), 1976(8) $5: 2003(1), 1999(1), 1995(1), 1993(1), 1988A(1), 1977(1), 1974(2), 1963*(1), 1963(1), 1950A(1) $10: 2003*(1), 1995(1), 1993(1), 1969(1), 1963A(1) $20: 1995(1), 1981(1), 1934(1) $50: 1981(1)
Any marked bills are usually not worth keeping unless they are a rare issue. Star notes are replacement bills for the same serial number. They are usually replaced because the original was damaged.
By "Counterfeit test" do you mean the pen that checks the bills? If so, it's worth face unless it's a star or something (It means the cashier had no confidence in the bill's spender... ). When printing dollar bills, the sequnece must not be broken. If a bill is messed up and must be removed from the "press", it is replaced with a bill of the same number, just having a star at the end (because duplicating an exact number is against regulations).
