Just thought I'd share my best score to date... received as change the other day a crisp 1963 B Barr note! while I new it was a keeper based upon the sixties date and the excellent quality of the bill as I was exiting the market, I did not realize it was a Barr note until I got it home. Lesson learned: I should have immediately asked for more ones in change, in case there were any more in the till. It possibly could be Unc as there are literally no creases or previous folds. However, grading paper is still very new to me. I am sure someone spent it not knowing anything about it.
I don't think Barr's are that scarce. I've bought Barr's in CHCU for maybe 4 bucks or so each not to long ago, and that's consecutive pairs. Non the less, it's amazing that you found that in circulation! Folks must be cashing their stashes or the wife or kids find dads stash? There is NO other way to explain a '63B in AU when $1's are lucky to last 18 months in circulation!
I found my first circulation Barr strap searching just a few days before Christmas. It was a JC block which just so happens to be the same block I already had from my purchased CHCU Barr from a few years ago. -tbud
Nice find. You just do not see 42-year old one dollar bills in circulation very often. It must have been from someone's collection.
