$2 Conventional or COPE

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Currency Overprinting and Processing Equipment (COPE) notes were new back in the 1970s and replaced conventional notes slowly over the years. COPE notes were printed, cut, sorted, inspected, and packed all on one machine. The older conventional notes had this done on different machines and in stages.

Both types are common, have equal value, and are not all that collectible. Yet there is enough interest that you should know how to identify them.

I will give you a minute to click on the picture above and try to tell the difference.

Well below I made it easier to notice the slight differences.

Conventional serial number checklist:

• Normal or slightly thinner letter and numbers.
• Thinner kerning or spacing.
• G is more square, A has a larger upper triangle, 6 has a larger lower circle.

COPE serial number checklist:

• Bolder or slightly thicker letter and numbers.
• Larger kerning or spacing.
• G is more round, A has a smaller upper triangle, 6 has a smaller lower circle.

Conventional stats...
Type/Country: 2 Dollars / United States
Year: 1976
Date Printed: December 1975 - August 1976
Printings: 84,480,000
Run: 72nd from 59-73 of 132 the G45440001A - G46080000A
Value: $2.50 in Almost Uncirculated

COPE stats...
Type/Country: 2 Dollars / United States
Year: 1976
Date Printed: December 1975 - August 1976
Printings: 84,480,000
Run: 76th from 74-132 of 132 the G48000001A - G48640000A
Value: $2.50 in Almost Uncirculated 

Sharp eyed viewers may notice that the conventional note has a slight Misaligned Overprint error, but nothing to add any extra value.

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1953-A $5 Star Note

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This was my last find of last year but I thought I should move it to the front of the line while I have a bit of time. It also happened to be my best find of 2010. Got some last second gifts at a gift shop and the lady on line paid with this bill not caring to spend it on junk gifts. While the cashier did not even check if it was real but quickly passed it on to me. I was surprised no one else cared that this was a blue seal older note.

This is a silver certificate from the 1953-A it is also a star note. One more thing some sharp eyes may notice is on the obverse at the top left and center are some black line. On the reverse on the top right is a green line. Those are the positioning or alignment marks. These marks were used to line up the original 12-subject sheet to be cut to the exact dollar dimensions. This bill is slightly off-center so the marks are visible. Go ahead click each image and see for yourself, I will wait for you to comeback...see told you.

Although it has a slight faulty alignment this was common in these types of notes, from what I understand it does not add much value.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 5 Dollars / United States
Year: 1953-A
Date Printed: July 1957 - January 1961
Printings: 12,960,000
Run: *15120001A - *2808000A
Value: $55.00 in this shape

The condition is crisp and without bends or folds. Unfortunately the scanner did some auto correction and took out all the stains and yellowness. I am using a new scanner not my older-better model. To make sure this bill was not ironed I held it up to a strong light and checked every inch for thin light-lines that would indicate it was folded once. Pressing a bill is fine while iron is considered deceptive and possible destructive.

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Summer of George

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Last time I found a Where's George note I kind of went on a rant. To recap it is a site where people stamp notes in order to track them, which I found slightly offensive.

At this point I will not say much but this note I found it typical of Where's George note. Meaning it is fairly
new yet in horrible shape. I do not know if the stampers only doing this to old notes or people tend to manhandle the note more when they try to identify the stamp.

This stamp is says:

LOG ON 

IT IS 

FUN 

& 

FREE 

www.WHERESGEORGE.COM 

With boxes around the series year and serial number. Again I partially blocked the number to keep the game going, yes even though I am not a fan I do not feel like ruining someone's fun.
             

Original page.

The bill was first entered in Illinois back in March of 2008 later that same year it ended up in Vermont then almost two years of travel it ended up here with me, which I will pass on. The bill has traveled about 1,000 miles so far but I doubt it will last another three years.

From the initial user profile here is Blimey's stats:

Bills Entered:	4,222	Hit Rate:	13.48%
Bills with Hits:	569	Total Hits:	684
Days of Inactivity:	0	George Score:	941.87
Wilds Found:	13	Overall Rank:	2,973
State Rank (Illinois)	115	State Percentile :	97.98

This guy is not as obsessed with stamping notes as others on the site.l

Here's the original stats...
Type/Country: 1 Dollar / United States
Year: 2006
Date Printed: June 2007
Printings: 96,000,000
Run: 4th from F19200000C - F25599999C
Value: $1.00 in this shape



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Progressive Consortium

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I've talked about those stamps you occasionally see on paper money. And I found a few but none that were very interesting until this one. It is large and just writing, no cartoons.

Can't quite make out the stamp? Well let me spell it out for you.

PROGRESSIVE GROCERS OF 

JAMAICA LIMITED 

WESTGATE

Apparently Progressive Grocers is a consortium of big shots in the food retail and related industry who go around the world buying up local grocery stores and chains based on research about new markets.
Yeah, sounds ominous.

Jamaica Limited, based in Jamaica, is a particular off-shoot of the parent company Progressive Grocers, I have forgotten everything I learned last semester about limited liability companies so do a Bing search if you want.

Westgate is a community once known for its Shoppers Fair supermarket until the consortium came into town. This all happened back in February of 2000.

I assume that this bill was used or exchanged at this Jamaican store, got stamped to verify authenticity, then used again probably by a bank, maybe by a Jamaican-New Yorker who then came to NYC and used it again until I got it.

Of course no extra value but an interesting trip/story.

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Tuning Into FM

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Hundreds of dollar bills pass through my hands every year and unless they are very old or obviously different I give them a quick glance and then move on. The reason is because I am more of a coin collector not currency.

Then one day one commenter asked about the 2003-A serial number F-M series. I was confused and looked up the info i my books and low and behold they are special. Here is a great table from the wonderful site uspapermoney.info. The guy has made tracking paper an art or a chart to be more exact.

Begin serial      End serial     Type      Length      Runs
 

F 000 00001 M  -  F 064 00000 M    fw      6,400,000       1
F 064 00001 M  -  F 768 00000 M    dc     70,400,000    2-12
F 768 00001 M  -  F 896 00000 M    fw     12,800,000   13-14
F 896 00001 M  -  F 960 00000 M    dc      6,400,000      15

So what does that mean?
It means the dollar for series 2003-A for the F-M block had switched printings from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington D.C. several times.

Switching between the different government printing and engraving facilities is not uncommon but as you see in the lengths 6,400,000 notes is a very small number for a regular series. It is just one run before switching.

 

I may have passed on dozens of these but until someone pointed them out I did not notice. Most times notes get used immediately. With coins I can hold them in a jar for months before using them, giving me enough time to search and fine pick any little variety.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Dollar / United States
Year: 2003A
Date Printed: October 2006
Printings: 6,400,000
Run: 15th from F89600001M - F96000000M
Value: $10.00 in CH-CU(choice-crisp-uncirculated)

Normally a CH-CU dollar is at most $2.00, so the one pictured above is five times the norm.

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Australian Currency

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Finally the issues with Blogger have been solved and I can stop using my alter ego MC, he's not as fun.

This was kindly given by a tourist having trouble paying at the register at a big city store and I was gifted with this nice Australian five dollar note. It is one of the few foreign notes I've gotten in over a decade.

Australian currency is the definition of "funny money". It is brightly colored, has lots of designs, and is made of plastic.

Plastic money or polypropylene polymer banknotes are not new to the currency world but this is the first time I ever had one. It doesn't feel as fake as I thought plastic money would feel mainly because it has texture. The bill has raised features which gives it depth and a good grip.

The front has Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, eucalyptus leaves, and a gum flower on a transparent window. The back has Parliament House, the landscape plans for that house, and some neat patterns.

There is a lot of security features like micro-printing, dual side printing to create one image, and a few other things common to most modern notes.

Type/Country: 5 Dollars / Australia
Year: 2003A
Printings: 114,000,000 (badly estimated)
Run: ???
Value: $6.00 in VF, it has a fold and this is more of the currency exchange rate

Great video although I have to find the original source.

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Stamp It, Don't Lick It

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A recent study by the American Chemical Society concluded that up to 90% of all U.S. notes contain cocaine. The reason for the high numbers could not be verified.

The Study
Using a modified gas chromatography-mass spectrometer the bills of 30 cities in 5 countries were analyzed for illicit drugs. The easiest drug to test for is cocaine so all other chemicals were dismissed. Earlier studies were broader in chemical analysis and used techniques that lead to destruction or contamination of the bills being studied.

The Stats
234 U.S. notes
27 Canadian notes
?? Brazil notes
112 Chinese notes
16 Japanese notes

Highest Percentage - U.S. #1, Canada #2, Brazil #3, China #4 , Japan #5
Highest Cities - Washington D.C. at 95% followed closely by Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit
Highest levels - Canada with 2.4 micrograms to over 2,530 micrograms of coke per banknote, U.S.A. is number 2.

Conclusion
No affect what so ever. Most of amount were less than a grain of sand and probably from cross contamination and not direct contact.

Opinion
Drug dealers and counterfeiters mostly from Mexico and South America are the likely key to the problem. International criminals love U.S. money and will sell counterfeits but only use real money when drug dealing.

The problem is so horrible that nearly every bill used outside America gets stamped.

Japanese possibly Korean stamp left, South American stamp on the right.

El Chato means The Flat? Possibly Mexican but most Latin American countries use this term.

SA possibly South Asian I've seen this among Korean stampings.

Cambio BANʞDOLLAR, L.C.G., Amery ?????, O??? Cambio.
All I know is Cambio means change.

A faint ANGEL $%&, Cambio $, ? , ? $ Money

That final bill contained 10 stamps from foreign exchange stamps. With the rampant fakes a person wanting American money must go to an exchanger who verifies the authenticity of every bill by stamping it.

Again drug dealers make there own stamps so each time the note is exchanged it gets re-stamped. By the time these bills com back to the U.S. they passed about a dozen exchangers and also several kilos of drug money.

Update: That red bird stamp L.C.G. is probably the Nazca Bird Line art from Peru.

Also these stamped notes have no extra value and may actually lose value if the ink cannot be removed.

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2003 $2 Bill, I-B

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Rarity, scarcity, or just plain old hard to find. Most likely the latter because $2.00 notes are not rare or particularly valuable. Yet to receive one in your change is very unlikely. The only scarcer form of U.S. money to get as change is the half dollar coin.

The only reason I got these two $2.00 bills is that the I knew the cashier. Which is a major point since people have been arrested when other cashiers have not recognized these bills and the local uninformed authorities gets involved.

The worst forms of money to use in the U.S. are as follows:

1. $2.00 bill - Seldom seen, believed to be fake or no longer legal.
2. Susan B. Anthony dollar coin - Seldom seen, believed to be fake or a quarter.
3. Half dollar coin - Seldom seen, believed to be fake or no longer legal.
4. Older bills without the strip or watermark - Believed to be fake or no longer legal.
5. Golden dollars - Believed to be fake or too bulky fit in register.

The look you get these days when using cash in some places is almost the same as you get if you stepped in mud and tracked it into their store. Go ahead try to explain it's just mud nothing worse but still you soiled their business. If cash gets this reaction then these rarely used notes or coins gets a "you fully stepped in it now" look.

Now a look at the offenders.

It has been years since I got any $2.00 bills and never from 2003.

These circulating notes were only issued for the Minneapolis, MN Federal Reserve Bank but collectible star notes were issued from the other 11 Federal Reserve Banks.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 2 Dollars / United States
Year: 2003
Date Printed: October 2003
Printings: 121,600,000
Run: 2nd in the I00000001B - I25600000B group
Value: $2.00 in Fine(one is fine the other not so much)

I would like to state clearly these notes are real and legal. While I'm not sure about the local state laws they should be accepted without incident.

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Here's George?

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In the past I've been asked about the significance of Where'sGeorge.com stamped notes. Often I reply it's just a fun little game some people play with money, well I'm changing my stance. It is an obsessive habit that defaces money. Sure the bills are generally worth just face value but it is not all about the value.

Other common stamps seen on bills are bank stamps from other countries. These at least have a legitimate purpose, to stop counterfeiting. A few days ago I got my first Where's George bill and when investigating the site I can't help to be disappointed at what I found. What Hank Eskin started as a nice side project for an under worked database consultant has turned into a pandering company.

The object of the game is to use the serial number and series year of the bill to track the bill across the world. The problem is not the game but it has turned into a competition of manic proportions. This bill for instance has spent 1 year, 33 days, 9 hours, and 3 minutes to travel from South Portland, Maine to NYC. Although it looks like it's been around the world twice, while drunk.

The WheresGeorge.com site is free to register but I didn't so I could not contact the original sender "Melody". I would ask her to freely comment if my reaction is justified or not.

Melody's Stats:

Bills Entered:	23,876	Hit Rate:	7.47%
Bills with Hits:	1,784	Total Hits:	1,931
Days of Inactivity:	1	George Score:	1,074.13

Yes you read right and not all bills entered are $1.00. She doesn't even rank among the top that record is for people who submit over 1 million stamped notes. In my life I doubt 100,000 notes passed through my hands let alone 1 million since 1998, the company start date.

Illegal?
Only if used for advertising purpose or to alter the value of the note with the purpose of deception.

The Secret Service ordered WheresGeorge.com to stop selling rubber stamps and they complied but many others still do, legally. Seeing how a profit is still being made at WheresGeorge.com it is possible to prosecute but the Secret Service wisely said they had better stuff to do.

On coins the Secret Service takes it more serious.

The Silver Surfer quarter was a promotion by 20th Century Fox through the Franklin Mint to circulate 40,000 stickered quarters for a chance at prizes. There was a big scandal which lead to no real trouble for either company.

Which made me laugh when I saw the Cici's Pizza commercial last night.

Each Cici's Pizza will be given 2,000 cents and told to drop the stickered cents on the ground and if you pick one up and peel the sticker you may win some free food. http://www.beapennypickerupper.com/ is the site and while the commercial is shown in NY I think the closest Cici's is about 200 miles away.

I don't mind the sticker promotion, illegal or not, because there is no permanent damage unlike the ink stains and extra abuse given stamped bills. I'll end this almost rant by pointing out I did block the serial number and will pass the note on, still I want to contact the original sender if time permits.

Update: The actual commercial.

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Stars Came Out Tonight

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I recently got this fresh super crisp star note from my change. This is the nicest looking star note I ever got and made sure not to fold or bend before I got it home.

Now when I looked it up in the book I see it is listed in sheets only, this is wrong. The Uncut Sheet sold by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) was only for the C-A block. Still this bill is one of the scarcer of the 2003-A $1.00 notes.

This is the second 2003A $1 star note that I found but this one is much more special in grade and rarity.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Dollar/United States
Year: 2003A
Date Printed: July 2007
Printings: 320,000
Run: 2nd from C03200001* - C03520000*
Value: $30.00 in CH-CU(choice-uncirculated)

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Big 5, Low Excitement

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Recently I received in change the $5 bill with big purple 5 on the back. I seems a bit silly to put these anti-counterfeiting measures especially since the Euro is worth more and the $5 bill won't get you a gallon of milk in NYC.

Still it's not much of a change since the last one. Speaking of change I did get a few other pieces, an old nickel, a Canadian cent, and a Trinidad & Tobago quarter.

None of these are worth a premium but I still like putting them aside. I must congratulate some of the visitors to this site because they have found some valuable pieces. Errors worth hundreds and older bills worth thousands. While I've yet to find anything that special I will keep searching.

Here's the stats...
Type / Country: 5 dollar bill / United States
Year: 2006--(Actual Printing Feb. 2008)
Mintage: 6,400,000
Value: $5.00 in CU

Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1966
Mintage: 183,644,388
Metal: Bronze
Value: $0.03 in G-4

Type / Country: 25 Cents / Trinidad & Tobago
Year: 2007
Mintages: Not yet known.
Metal: Copper-Nickel
Value: $0.30 in XF

Type / Country: 5 Cents / United States
Year: 1946-S
Mintage: 13,560,000
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $0.20 in F-12

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Finally I Got A Star

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While I'm happy so many people are finding star notes it has been a while since I got one. Mostly since I hardly use cash anymore.

Then on September 25 I got this bill in my change. It is a 2003A F-Atlanta series star note.

The back is normal as you can tell.

The star note is a replacement note used by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing when a defect or error is found on the regular run of notes. There is no replacement of specific serial number instead they replace blocks of notes with the newest star notes. Since less then 1% of notes need replacement star notes are scarce.

Still they are not rare since they are printed by the hundred thousand or million. They are printed in runs of a specific amount and the lower the run the more it is worth to collectors.

• Less than 320,000 printed is lowest.
• Exactly 320,000 printed is very-low.
• Between 320,000 and 640,000 is low.
• Exactly 640,000 is medium.
• More than 640,000 is high and normal.

Type/Country: 1 Dollar/United States
Year: 2003A
Printings: 3,200,000
Run: 4th from F09600001* - F12800000*
Value: $2.50 in VF

It has plenty of folds and is probably worth less then listed, but that is true with most collectibles.

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Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all

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Whew! I've been flooded with currency question over the past month. It is a good thing because it shows people are collecting. I understand that it is harder these days to find older or unique coins which is why notes are getting more popular.

This Small-Size Currency book is the best book for looking up modern currency prices although the values listed are slightly high. A modern note is any small size from 1928 until now.

As for where to sell your newly found bills, hmmm that is more difficult. If you don't know a good coin dealer then I suggest eBay or join a coin forum.

For most circulated notes you can expect to get $2.00 over the face value.
In crisp-uncirculated expect double face value.

Here are some notes to look out for...
Bill: $1 1935A serial #M-A (only two notes are known, but hey you never know)
Value: $8,250.00 in CH-CU($250.00 increase since 2008)

Bill: $5 1928D serial #F-A
Value: $6,000.00 in CH-CU($1,000.00 increase since 2008)

Bill: $100 1981 serial #E-*
Value: $3,000.00 in CH-CU

Other notes like $1 1988A Web-Fed Press Printings average $50.00. These were made with a special machine for a short run. They are by there serial numbers and are semi-rare.

Keep up with the questions and if find any special notes then I'll post them also. Recently I found a $1 1969C #F-B which is not worth anything more than $1.00 in circulated condition.
I also found a $20 bill from 2004 that has four zeros making it worth $22.50, not much but still cool.

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I See Stars

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Just replying to questions I think most people should keep in mind when looking through your bills.

what does a star mean next to the serial number on a dollar bill?
A star means that some notes were damaged when made at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. To replace these notes the government uses notes with a star on them this way they don't have to replace notes with the same serial numbers. Less then 1% of notes are star notes.

Image Source: http://www.visi.com/~antiquitybureau/2starnotes.jpg

how much is a 1950D $5 bill worth with a star next to the serial number?
It depends on the serial number and condition.
The I-* is at most $200.00 in crisp-uncirculated.
The K-* is at most $175.00 in crisp-uncirculated.
All others are at most $100.00 in crisp-uncirculated.
divide by ten if in less then perfect grade.

some of the new $10 bills also have the star?
Lots of the new bill have this and at first the were rare but now they are worth only a few dollars over face but the DH-* are the most sought after.

is there anything special about them?
Many collectors like them but they are sometimes overpriced. Those from St. Louis(H), Minneapolis(I), and Cleveland(D) are always key districts.

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Loonie Ten Dollars

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Back in April I got a new ten dollar bill in my change on the same day I got a 1987 Canadian dollar coin. Since then I've got lots of questions on a possible error on the ten dollar bill.

Look at the note carefully this is what a new crisp ten dollar bill looks like.

Now the question of error on the new ten dollar bill.
It is a myth people asked why does the 2006 note have a 2004 date, is that an error?
NO!

When a new bill has a design change they change the date to what ever year the change was made. If the design change is minor like a signature or adding color then a letter is added to the date, so 2004 turns to 2004A.

No ten dollar bill errors have been verified.

As for the Loonie coin it was the first Loonie coin in Canada's dollar coin series. There is another common 1987 Canadian dollar but it is 10x rarer. It is also an 11 sided coin, I think the cashier who gave it to me confused it with a U.S. golden dollar.

Here are the values of those pictured above...
Type / Country: 10 dollar bill / United States
Year: 2004A
Mintage: 51,200,000
Value: $10.00 in all grades unless it has been professional certified.

Type / Country: 1 dollar-Loon / Canada
Year: 1987
Mintage: 205,405,000
Metal: Aureate-Bronze Plated Nickel
Value: $2.25 in MS-63(this one is about $1.25 because it is worn)

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Old Dollar Find

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After Christmas I went to do some post-holiday shopping and received this bill in my change.

I found a 1935H dollar also known as a silver certificate. Notice the seal is blue instead of green.

The H in 1935H means the design was modified from the original 1935 bill, probably to add a new signature of a treasurer.

Here's a sample of what I found in my change over the last ten years.
$1.00 bills
1935E value in very good(VG) = $1.50
1935H value in VG = $2.00
1957-star note value in VG = $2.00
1957A value in VG = $1.25
1969B value in VG = $1.25

$2.00
1928G value in VG = $7.50
1953A value in VG = $4.00

$20.00
1950C value in VG = $25.00

Of course some are higher grades but most are very good.

Prices updated to 2008.

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$20 Dollar Bill Error?

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Bbsprite said...

Hello

I was wanting to find out if you would be able to help me
I have 8 consecutive 20 dollar bills without the little 20 printed on the back of any of them
I have enclosed a picture of the front of one and the back of another
would you be able to tell me what they are worth
any help would be greatly appreciated
Thank You
Belinda

Error 20'S

Wow she linked pictures and everything.
And if you thought that would simplify it you were wrong.

This was beyond my knowledge, beyond my Web search, even beyond my books. So I looked into my network of collectors who also never saw this error.

The small yellow "20"s on the back is an anti-copying security feature,
--Check for the nylon thread on the front to the left of the left side-dark seal.
--Check for the watermark of Jackson's head on the front to the right of the right-sided green seal.
--Hold the bill in front of a light to see the hidden features.

If they are not there then you have counterfeit bills. Which also has value.

If they are there then the bills are real and according to my source each bill is worth $200.00 for a total of $1,600.00. (This is only an educated guess since yours are the first reported.)

Thanks for the visit Belinda and sorry for the long delay but it is a new bill and a strange error.

If I have more updates or find them on eBay I'll post a link but I'd try to sell half of them to a local dealer before more are found.

Here is a cool error that sold on eBay for $10,100 in May 2003 and now sold at $25,300.
It's called the "banana note" and has a Del Monte sticker that fell on it midway during printing and was not caught and destroyed.

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10 Dollar Star Note

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I did not start collecting notes/paper currency until even after I had some two dollar bills. I used the two dollar bills to buy stuff and years later when I started collecting again I vowed to find more two dollar bills.

Eventually I found the two dollar bills from many years and expanded my notes to old dollars and also star notes.

Star notes are replacement bills used by the government when regular issues are defective. They are rarer then regular notes.

I got this 10 dollar from my change. It is near perfect.

Notice the star at the end of the serial number.

Here's the stats for this $10 bill...
Type/Federal Bank: $10 Star Note / Richmond
Serial Number Span: BE-* BE03 840 000*
Year: 1999
Printings: 675,200
Value: CU(crisp uncirculated) $60.00

Finding star notes is not difficult but most people just pass them on and not all of the worth so much.

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Error Dollar Bill

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This question was asked...

Anonymous said...
Hello Do you know anything about errors in dollar
bills? I have a crisp one dollar bill 1981 that is stamped with an "E" on the
front and also on the back.

I responded with...

Man said...
I need a picture to be more exact but it is possible, it is called Overprints on Back, it would also include a weak serial number along with the E.

In crisp uncirculated it would be worth $250.00.

It was a logic response because I didn't know the E was reversed.

Next...

Anonymous said...
I have a picture but how can I show you a picture? The normal cut and paste didn't work. After looking at it closer I see that the E is not stamped on both sides. It has actually bled through to the back. The E is very dark on the back and it is reversed. There are also four 5's that have bled through...as they are reversed, also. The serial number is only visible on the front.

Oh I see things more clearly...

Man said...
Sounds like you have an Offset Error for one dollar bills its about $75 to $100.

Here's a ten dollar example I used Imageshack to host the image and then the HTML tags a and href
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Anonymous' error sounds like a moderate-lighter version that happened on this ten dollar bill.



An offset error in the 3rd printing of a bill can lead to the "letter seal" and the serial numbers to bleed through the back this is the most common of error notes but still valuable. In one case a 1981 5 dollar bill with a 1 dollar bleed through this of course is a rare and highly valuable.

As you see with the ten dollar error above the prices should be divided by about three for your 1 dollar, so Fine: $50.00 EF: $100.00 CU:$150.00 remember the market changes and see prices reflect the highest you may ever hope to get.

Sidenote: With places like Flickr, imageshack and photobucket or other blogs just drop a link to your photo by using this format
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$2.00 bill

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Anonymous said...

I have 2 $2.00 bills serial #'s are 1. Bo6769716A
2. B22146751A
Can you tell me how much each one is worth??
How can I find this info. out without bothering you in the future?
Thank youP

I assume you’re talking about a 1976 note. All 1976 notes that span serial numbers
B00 000 001A to B67 200 000A are worth about $3.50 in Crisp Uncirculated condition each.






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http://www.heritagecoins.com/currency/guide.php

But it is only an overview. Feel free to ask here anytime you want it is why I made the site I have to currency books so it's not a big deal.

Thanks for the visit.