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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 25034532, member: 92212&quot;]Sorry, but this is going to be a needlessly long response.&nbsp; But just last weekend when sorting through old family stuff I found some currency pretty much just like these bills. (There was even some Confederate money that has been folded, crumpled, spindled, and quasi-mutilated.)&nbsp; My parents kept it because &quot;someday it will be worth something&quot;. That caused me to have all this on my mind, so...</p><p><br /></p><p>These bills you posted are cool reminders of days gone by!&nbsp; But alas... in their circulated condition such as they are... they have no <i>appreciable</i> &quot;worth&quot; over their face value. :-(&nbsp; Too many folds and wrinkles to be of much collector value. </p><p><br /></p><p>If they were listed on eBay they might <i>possibly</i> fetch a <u>little</u> over face value. But that would demand spending time and energy to deal with all the rigamarole involved with listing, uploading photos, answering buyer&#039;s questions, packaging them up when/<b>if</b> they sell, and getting them to the post office to ship. The eBay seller fees which would then take 30 cents per listing and 13.5% of the total. (Currently on eBay multiple $2 bills like the one posted are listed at $2.99 but have no bids. There are similar listings on eBay for $5 bills and $1 bills like those of this older woman.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So... sorry... but as far as what they are &quot;worth&quot; today... well... their sentimental-for-yesteryear value exceeds their realistic-today&#039;s-dollar value by a leap and a bound.&nbsp; But I&#039;d count on $10 for sure. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there are those who would list the whole group on eBay for $2,000 and make up some story to motivate a potential buyer.&nbsp; Like maybe how these exact very bills fell out Oswald&#039;s pocket when he got off the bus in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. With such a story and enough patience, one of those P.T. Barnum &quot;suckers&quot; may just bite. (I&#039;m CERTAINLY not advocating this! I detest such listings.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom-line, what is true for my parents and the bills they kept, is also true for this older woman at church.&nbsp; Had she put that $10 into Savings Bonds in the mid-60&#039;s, or, if she had simply put the $10 in a bank savings account, she would have been much better off.&nbsp; Not to mention that per online inflation calculators, $10 spending power in 1963 would be as though $99.27 of spending today.&nbsp; Ouch!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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