NEWBIE here and I need some help!

[maa510-migration]

 

My husband was given a coin collection that used to belong to his grandfather and in it, there was a 1917 $1 bill.

 

I cannot make out the name of the Register of Treasury but the other signer is John Bunker.

 

Serial number is H73972302A

 

I'm enclosing a photo.........can anyone help me figure out who the other signer is on this and how much it might be worth?

 

 

 

 

Here is the signature I cannot figure out:

 

Is there anyway to safely smooth some of the creases out of this bill?

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

[jtryka]

The signers are William S. Elliott and John Burke. This is an Fr. 37 $1 legal tender and from the look of it in not too bad a shape. As for smoothing out the creases, there is not much you can do, in the past, I would place a bill like this in between the pages of two unabridged dictionaries I have for sever weeks or even months. I suppose this would be considered pressing, and may not be veiwed favorably.

 

For future reference, here is a website that shows the signatures (most of them) and translates them for you: http://www.uspapermoney.info/sign/all.html

[gernblanston]

They press comic books all the time and CGC does not count that as any sort of restoration so, even though this is currency, it is not unforgivable.

[maa510-migration]

 

 

Thank you for the information.

 

Any advice as to what price I should start this at, if we were going to Ebay it?

 

 

[jtryka]

If I were putting it on eBay, I would probably start it at $9.99 and let the chips fall where they may.