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Message:: [QUOTE="harrync, post: 6691704, member: 58588"]It's the late 1960's, Superior is still in downtown LA on Wilshire Blvd., and parking is 20c per half hour [if you can't find a meter - 25c per hour.] I am sitting with one of the Goldbergs going over nationals. A older lady comes in and says she has some currency to sell. A-Mark across the street will give $1200, but they won't give her cash, and she doesn't see turning over her good hard cash for a check. Will Superior give her $1200 cash? She brings out eight $50 and six $100 third charter blue seals, all gem unc, all single digit serial numbers, all hand signed [her late husband was the president - Pacific NB.] I sit there keeping my mouth shut; I think I kept from drooling. They say sure, she takes her $1200 and leaves happy. I ask "How much?" Ninety for the $50's, one-fifty for the $100s. I buy two of each - all the cash I had on me at the time. [If that sounds way too cheap, remember there weren't a lot of high denomination currency collectors in those days.] About ten years later I sell a pair for about $3000. Three years ago I sell the other two - about $5000 for the $50, $8000 for the $100.[/QUOTE]