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Message:: [QUOTE="NOS, post: 3389244, member: 2098"]Bentsen $100 notes were rarely seen for the longest time. The ones in the scan on the previous page were each found at different banks. I just found the A-A today in point of fact. Small face notes are still surprisingly common. It's just we have a perception of their being rare because tellers usually inhibit their circulation by withholding their distribution. They are kept in their mute piles as they are brought in for deposit and quietly shipped off as unfit and summarily destroyed. This past Wednesday I went to a bank. As I was waiting in line a teller brought out about $30,000 in hundreds. Through the glass partition I could see an old hundred on the back of one of the straps. I could see another on the front as she flipped the strap over. Curious, I walked up to ask if she was going to be opening her window. I could see a 1993 F-B Bentsen on the top of one of the other straps. She said she was closing. I suspect there were a great many old hundreds in these straps. Not withstanding the high amount of face value, I would have loved to have been able to go through them and see what was there. I could tell the old hundred I first noticed was considerably older than the '93 Bentsen I saw on the top of the other strap due to its noticeably darker green color on the back. Such is life, though. One can't save everything due to one reason or another, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]