I had put this question in a thread that may not be visited much so I reposted and made questions a little clearer, I hope. A question for all you paper collectors. Say for example you decided to collect a denomination series like the $1.00 or the $5.00 bill. Let's say you set a goal to get 1 of each bill including a star if it was issued. There have been several (I think you call them) blocks, that were printed ie, AxxxxxxxxA- AxxxxxxxxB- AxxxxxxxxC and so on and so forth. My question for you is on the 2 denomination's listed above, from 1928 to current date what do you think it would cost to assemble such a collection? At a grade of no less than AU 58, so how could you determine price to pay? What would a complete set be worth in your opinion? Where in the World could you find all of these to complete a set? Could it be done? Have any of you done this with Federal Reserve Notes? I can't even begin to afford something like that but awful curious about it. I think it would be really visually stimulating display, don't you?
Just the $1 1928E star in VF will set you back $10K. There are collectors that do just this and compete with other collectors in Registry sets. A bit of a pissing match to some, the top sets have taken decades to assemble. On a smaller scale, my first goal was to get an uncirculated example of every $1 FRN (1963 and up) star note for every series and every district and almost* every run. Most were easily affordable but some were ex$pensive. I continue this still today.
I'm not sure that displaying it would be practical. Just the $1 FRNs, 1963-2013, would require 1667 regular notes and 228 stars for a basic block set. If you start distinguishing DC vs. FW printings and COPE vs. conventional printings, you're up to 1852 regular and 251 star. By the time you throw in all the silver certificate blocks, you're going to be pushing 2500 notes, just in the $1's. How would you even begin to display a collection that large?
WOW and Geeze! that is mind boggling to say the least. In my original post I a not so sure I stated it correctly. By $1.00 I meant just Federal Reserve Notes. For the $5.00 its the same, district could be collectors choice I suppose. Is any district easier than the others? From what I have read there are 12 of them?
Yeah, and try and stick with one thing, trying to do to many things at Once can cause green paper to move out of your wallet real fast...LOL
that seems to be true. I already have seen examples of what I like but budget is pretty low to be honest.
