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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2181397, member: 11668&quot;]This is a good point.&nbsp; The rarest $1 FRN series to find in circulation are the 1969A and 1969C.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; There are still quantities of Barr notes coming out of people&#039;s sock drawers decades later; 1969A&#039;s and 1969C&#039;s, not so much.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Interesting analogy, which points up some of the differences between coin and currency collecting.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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!).&nbsp; But with currency there&#039;s a lot less demand; a printage of a few million notes is enough to make for a &quot;common&quot; star, worth only a small premium even if uncirculated.&nbsp; Coin collectors coming over to the currency side have to recalibrate their idea of &quot;low&quot; production totals.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Likewise, coins from the &#039;60s are still quite common in circulation, but paper money older than 1995 or so doesn&#039;t often turn up.&nbsp; 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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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