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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 442507, member: 4626&quot;]I figure that&#039;s why sightings of such notes in circulation are on the rise... people have some of these saved away, and when money gets tight, they say &quot;heck with it&quot; and just spend them, not realizing or not caring what they&#039;d be worth to a collector (or assuming they&#039;re not worth anything over face, due to condition).</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes they&#039;re right of course, and they&#039;re not worth a whole lot over face... but there&#039;s still collectors who would love to save them if they can afford to.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently rescued a slightly stained, but not too bad, 1988 $5 bill that would surely end up in the Fed&#039;s shredder if I didn&#039;t rescue it!&nbsp; In its condition it&#039;s probably not worth a penny over $5 but for $5 it&#039;s worth it to me to save it, especially how rare it&#039;s getting to see old style $5&#039;s in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=922013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=922013" rel="nofollow">http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=922013</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s worth it to save a 20 year old bill, it has to be even more so to save bills this old lol... so far oldest piece of paper money I ever found in circulation was this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917690" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917690" rel="nofollow">http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917690</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Which is still a highlight of my collection!&nbsp; And only cost me face value![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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