Fenntucky Mike

When I say billions that includes all notes printed within a series and multiple series. Series 1935A and D silver certificates come to mind where there were just tons of them printed. Here is a link to a table for the 1935 series notes. http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/s1935zs.html#1935A

Small size silver certificates, I'm assuming that's what the guy had, in circulated condition are basically worth face value or maybe +$1 over face, they were heavily saved and billions printed. There are a few rare types but for the most part they are common as dirt and readily available. I think there are quite a few coin types with the same issue, maybe not as bad as small size SC's, circulated to low mint state coins from the early to mid 20th century don't typically bring much of a premium unless they are a rare variety, error, or have an exceptionally low mintage/survival rate.

True, but while frowned upon the trimming of bills seems to be a somewhat accepted practice, especially for older notes which were cut from sheets by hand at the bank of issue. TPG's will also straight grade modern notes from uncut sheets sold by the BEP. Manmade errors from uncut sheets are a no no and will be noted on the holder. They are pretty few and far between but I have seen notes with "Trimmed" noted on the holder, the notes were still straight graded. As long as it is not painfully obvious that a note was trimmed, it is usually pass through without notation from what I've seen.

That's the one. I remember Leslie Parrish more for the Manchurian Candidate than this episode of Star Trek, either way. I'm not sure which role she played first.

Actually quite a few were saved. For old NBN, they were cut from sheets at the distributing bank and a lot of the S# 1's were saved by the bank or the bank president or teller. For modern notes it's kind of similar to coins where distributers for the Fed Banks will cherry pick the fancy numbers and start notes. It's probably easier in some ways to cherry pick notes than coins, at any rate, there are plenty of fancy # notes and star notes in high grades to go around.

Nice note, I've only purchased a graded fancy number note twice if I remember correctly but I have gobs of raw fancy number notes. Most fancy numbers can be bought at reasonable prices, except for solid and low numbers (10 and lower), 100-11 S#'s bring strong prices for U.S. notes and 10000000, 20000000, 30000000, etc., numbers as well.

According to the Standard Catalog of World Paper money Djura Jaksich is on the 5,000,000,000 Dinara note and Joseph Panchic is on the 10 Dinara. I don't know if either of them are connected to Tito. The break up of the USSR and Yugoslavia followed by the formation of all the newly independent countries always interested me, once Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula I really dived into the notes and coins of these countries and never looked back. I enjoy the artistry, history, workmanship, meanings behind the designs, security features, etc., involved with each note and I suspect most collectors feel the same in the areas they collect. I also enjoy being in a less heavily collected area of numismatics as it allows me to pick up unique or scare notes I would not have been able to purchase if collecting say U.S. notes. Don't have the budget and being in the U.S. I'm overexposed to these and it has turned me off to most notes and coins U.S. related. I've got room to stretch my legs in my collecting areas and can put together a really awesome collection I would not have been able to do otherwise. I pick up notes mainly online, over time you make connections and are able to put together something really special. I pick up a majority of my notes overseas either through individual sellers I've met online or through auctions. Believe it or not a lot of good material ends up on ebay as well. Excellent place to look for world notes at decent prices.

This cracked me up. I love this note! I've seen you post it before and I'm amazed by it every time.

I love the artistry of the vignettes, scroll work, fonts, etc., on bond and stock certificates so that is the main reason I pick some of these up. I wanted to be in a niche collecting area so I went with trying to pick up mostly specimens, I also chose specimens because actual bonds will often have cancellation perforations going through the design and are missing most if not all of the coupons. I stick with Michigan themed pieces mostly, and who doesn't love trains, so I have a lot of railroad pieces.

It is, WAY harder. Side lighting is a must to properly grade a note, along with actually handling it to determine embossing, quality of paper, etc... I've done most of my buying online and have had good luck so far even though I'm not seeing the note in person.

Pressing notes in books, or in other ways, is probably the biggest sin of the past. That is the main reason a lot of older notes that look to be in fabulous condition don't Q. Notes with EPQ or PPQ designations go for much higher sums in most cases. Stick a note in a book, iron it, etc and you'll flatten the embossing and make the note feel overly stiff, cleaning a note is not necessarily frowned upon if done properly, similarly to coins. A coin will details grade if cleaned, a note will NET grade but I've never seen a note labeled as cleaned on a TPG holder yet.

You could very well be right, and if fact probably are, with all of the soiling on the OP's note it could drop it down to around 30 depending on other condition factors. I must have been in a good mood that day. I will also say that your note appears to be in fabulous condition for a 45, under-graded perhaps? PMG didn't give it an EPQ designation so I'll assume that the note was pressed. Fabulous ink on the face of the note.

This note rounds out my, issued notes, coupon red overprint specimen set of 1991 for Ukraine. I'm still working on the perforated specimens and red overprint font varieties but that's a story for another day.

PMG will label a radar note with matching block letters as a "radar" not a "true radar". They don't differentiate between radar notes and super radar notes either, nor should they in my opinion.

I'm assuming that you are talking about a postmarked note, if I'm incorrect on that let me know. I hadn't heard of V-J Day postmarked notes before but I imagine that there are quite a few. A quick search popped up several examples on the internet. Having notes stamped with a postmark at the post office to commemorate a special occasion was pretty common back in the day. There are gobs of U.S. $2 notes that were posted marked for the bicentennial in '76. There is not a list documenting postmarked notes that I know of, but maybe. Collecting postmarked notes is a niche in paper money collecting, very few people, if any, focus on them as a whole. I'd love to see a picture of the note if you get a chance to post it.

When the BEP prints notes, regular and replacement, they number them consecutively and don't tend to skip over large ranges of numbers. I took a look at the BEP production figures for these and it looks like they printed a full range in this block letter 00000001 - 96000000. Replacement (star) notes are either inserted at the time of printing or at the end of a run in packs, the seral numbers on replacement notes do not correlate with the notes they are replacing, meaning they don't use star note 00000100 to replace damaged note 00000100, it's random. Based on that I'd say that it is possible that there are regular series 2013 BB block $1 note out in the wild having serial numbers in those ranges as the duplicated notes. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is the case.

Welcome to the Forum. I tend to think that this did not happen at the BEP. Regardless of how it happened, due to the minor nature of the "cutting error" and condition of the note I'd say it's only worth face value or maybe a few dollars over if you can find a buyer and it is an actual error.

Welcome to the Forum. My best guess is that it's probably worth around $200 in that condition. It could also be a German forgery, Operation Bernhard, which could affect the value either up or down. It seems down based on what I'm seeing but I'm far from an expert on these.

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Whoa! Nice printed fold error, definitely worth having authenticated. Probably worth around $400.

When a note has incorrect information on the label it is called a "Mechanical Error" by PMG. You should email PMG, service@pmgnotes.com, explain the situation and provide the cert # and some images. PMG will send you a shipping label and re-holder the note at no charge with correct label if they determine that it is in fact a Mechanical Error.