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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 355899, member: 8033&quot;]I&#039;ve always liked old stuff period. Old being a relative term of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m the guy that, when on vacation, will drive by an old cemetary on a country road and stop to look at the stones. Just wondering what it was like when some person I never heard of lived in &quot;these parts&quot; 150 years ago. Would have been a lot different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have collected coins since childhood. When I was in my teens I was running a cash register in various places. Used to see 1934 $20 notes a lot. I&#039;d keep a few if I could afford them.</p><p>Brought some to a dealer many years ago and he said they were worth $20.</p><p>Od course this was in the 1980s and old style was still being printed. I ended up spending those notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leap forward to the mid to late 90s. I&#039;m working in a truck stop seeing a LOT of cash. I happen upon about 10 nice twenties from the 50s.&nbsp; So I buy them at face.</p><p>I know NOTHING about currency or grading at this point so I go to the local coin shop and buy a blackbook mainlty to get an idea as to how to grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, I put these up on ebay. Big pictures an honest auctions. I flat out tell people I get them at face and if I can make a few bucks I&#039;ll keep selling them. Well, they sold and I made a few bucks. Hmmm... I&#039;m on to something here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next I see a guy selling circulated star notes. So I start looking. Well, I&#039;m finding up to $100 worth a day. I start trading with this guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point currency is slow in the Midwest but hot on the West coast and South. I pick up several consecutive 1950D series $20 notes for $24 each and get good money on ebay. I still have a few by the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m picking up AU funnybacks at $10-12 and they&#039;re getting $40 on ebay. I&#039; m putting some of those aside as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Currency is hot at this point and I start making new contacts. A group of us from Maryland to Utah are exchanging CU $1 notes for block collectors. We&#039;re all making a few bucks this way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, my buddy in Utah asks me if I ever see 295 errors. I have no clue what he&#039;s talking about. He explains them and I find them EVERY day. I start selling some but see there are so many combinations so I start hoarding. Hate to sell a rare note without knowing and the field is new at this point.</p><p>This turned into a monster. I start tracking them manually then go online with it. Get an email from a member of the Currency Club of Long Island. They&#039;ve been tracking them and would like to include my list. Go for it I say</p><p>Eventually I&#039;m invited to join the club and am still a member.</p><p>I also have about 2500 295 errors. Hope they get hot again some day<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By this time I&#039;m a lost cause. I&#039;m a 295 &quot;expert&quot;. People think I&#039;m some huge dealer and I work in a truck stop. I&#039;ve made a lot of contacts by now and am always up on what&#039;s hot in modern currency. I&#039;m plucking a lot of stuff out of circulation. Some gets sold while other I keep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I&#039;ve found some cool stuff. Webs, 295s, printing errors, rare stars etc. I&#039;m also cherrypicking coin dealers whenever possible. I know more than most of them when it comes to modern or even small size notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually I went back heavier into coins. I still love my currency and still look. There is so much to be found if you know what to look for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that good enough for you RickieB?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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