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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1636256, member: 4626"]I found one of those Barr notes in my cash drawer when I worked as a cashier at Crocs.  Was probably still AU, it had barely been touched (was folded slightly but still very crisp).  Interesting, but probably not very valuable.  My guess is someone deposited it at a bank not knowing or not caring what it was, and we ended up with it when we got change for the drawer from the same bank. Not sure how long it took people to realize these would never become especially valuable, basically because 1: they weren't rare, 430 million of them were printed; and 2. tons of people were saving them because they thought they'd be valuable, meaning even in high grades they'd never be hard to find.  I suspect people hoarded them and hoped they'd be valuable someday, and after a generation or two they just forgot about them or gave up and started spending and depositing them.  In really choice condition some can fetch $20 (and talking basically absolutely perfect here), which allowing for inflation since 1969 actually isn't that much of an appreciation in value. But well it's a great conversation piece if nothing else.  Mine cost me only $1 so it was a great buy. Here's a pic of mine. <a href="http://banknotebank.com/viewnote/922212" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://banknotebank.com/viewnote/922212" rel="nofollow">http://banknotebank.com/viewnote/922212</a>[/QUOTE]