So I have run into a supply problem with my boxes of coins and today I was bored so I picked up $800 worth of ones to see if there was anything interesting. These are the ones I thought had some potential. Are they worth holding onto or should I toss em back? Thanks for looking! I found 3 Star notes: Also a 1969A, 1988A, and a 2009 with all 3's with the exception of 2 9's.
I still have them. I will be returning the rest to the bank tomorrow and picking up a new batch. At least for now, they have a home
The last one 'E33333993E' is a binary. If they were mine, I'd hang on to them, because, 'maybe someday'.
I'm only out $6 at the end of the day I guess. They have found their way to my other $1 finds...A couple of silver certs, a Barr note and a couple star notes.
That 1969A is a pretty nice and rare find. I've only found one 1969A $1 note since I started searching 10 years ago.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, and you'll see different views of your finds. I don't know beans about most coins, but am curious if collectors post heavily circulated State Quarters and ask of their value ? I probably shouldn't, but assume anyone posting here has internet access, and can research virtually anything with basic knowledge. If your currency collecting is limited to circulated finds at face value, then keep every star you find that you can afford.
This is a good point. The rarest $1 FRN series to find in circulation are the 1969A and 1969C. Both of these had printage totals only slightly larger than the well-known 1963B Barr notes, but they got a lot less attention and therefore a lot less hoarding. There are still quantities of Barr notes coming out of people's sock drawers decades later; 1969A's and 1969C's, not so much. Interesting analogy, which points up some of the differences between coin and currency collecting. Most of the notes in the top post are, of course, a couple orders of magnitude rarer than a state quarter just going by the quantities produced--far rarer still when the attrition rate of currency vs. coins is taken into account. If there were any modern circulation-issue coins that were as scarce as the typical $1 star note, they probably *would* sell for strong prices in well-circulated condition (if indeed any of them managed to stay in circulation long enough to reach such condition!). But with currency there's a lot less demand; a printage of a few million notes is enough to make for a "common" star, worth only a small premium even if uncirculated. Coin collectors coming over to the currency side have to recalibrate their idea of "low" production totals. Likewise, coins from the '60s are still quite common in circulation, but paper money older than 1995 or so doesn't often turn up. For someone with a coin-searching background, it can be unexpected that something fairly difficult to pull from circulation, like a 1981 $1, is nevertheless so inexpensive when found.
Well I would certainly hold onto the 33333993 note, because: The number you entered was 33333993. Congratulations! You have found an extremely cool number! It has a Universal Coolness Index of 99.39% 33333993 contains a 6-of-a-kind and 1 pair. Only 0.0025% of 8-digit numbers have this combination. 33333993 contains a 5-of-a-kind and 1 pair together. Only 0.0052% of 8-digit numbers have this combination. 33333993 has 2 unique digits. In 0.011% of 8-digit numbers, there are 2 or fewer unique digits. All of the digits in 33333993 are multiples of 3. Only 0.070% of 8-digit numbers have this property. All of the digits in 33333993 are odd! Only 0.39% of 8-digit numbers have this property. A 99.39% is a real keeper!
