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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1638248, member: 6986&quot;]I agree with the sentiments that the redemption value will likely always exceed any collector value for bonds in the hands of the original owners.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, there is a small but ardent group of people that I know that do collect US savings bonds. Collecting savings bonds is in its infancy as a hobby and until any definitive work of cataloguing varieties is done the market value of any particular issue is going to be speculative.&nbsp; There is more information and history for the market for the older style intaglio printed bonds (1935-1952 series) than there is for the later Hollerith card and lithographed types.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at Ebay listings on any given day there are a fair number of savings bonds listed. Most of these are from unclaimed storage facilities or dead distant relatives.&nbsp; If you are patient you can pick them up relatively cheaply.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The one truly scarce variety of the late issues were bonds called Freedom Shares.&nbsp; They were issued for a brief time in the 1970s and few people bought them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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