No, this is not a thread devoted to the most famous line uttered by a paperboy in American film.
I’ve been cleaning this morning, and came across 2 one dollar bills. They were printed in 1963, are in practically mint condition, and are three serial numbers apart, -246G and -249G.
Money collectors - Shouldn’t I just go ahead and spend these? I vaguely remember stashing these away because they were so close together numerically. But now that I think about it they are really only worth a dollar and will always be worth right around a dollar. So I might as well go by a Starbucks’ Frappuchino et al. with them, right?
Movie: “Better Off Dead.” John Cusack vehicle, right around the same time as “One Crazy Summer” and “The Sure Thing.” And I watched WAY too many movies in the '80’s.
I think the paper money changed sometime in the 1960s, the old money had a note at the top “Silver Certificate”, the new money has “Federal Reserve Note”.
Archer hit on the key point. If it’s a silver certificate, it has value well beyond a dollar, because it entitles the bearer to a certain quantity of the precious metal. Unless the Feds passed a law saying that people had to redeem them by such-and-such a date, that is.
Look for coin collectors in the yellow pages, and give one a call. They’d be able to tell you.
i have two ten dollar bills from 1934. i know i have a single from 1963. the tens are in good condition, the guy at the coin shop down the road “oh they are only worth $10”
he did not see them, but this cannot be right!
FWIW i find this unbelievable, i know it won’t appreciate much, and it is not a silver certificate. but so what?
collecting should be about finding unusual things, and taking joy in the little things instead of waiting for whatever lenox,disney, or bradford* mint collectible they decide to throw at us!
and shut up about the state quarters already, everybody is saving them. supply and demand, people! duh!
find somthin unusual and save it for a keepsake, fight corporate collectibles!!!
i say keep your '63 single. they will redesign the singles to and then you can have one from “back in the day” .
*bradford, bradbury, bradley, i can’t think what they are called and do not much care!
For they are theives! Well perhaps not all of them…I have a couple 1964 silver quarters.(the last year quarters were minted in silver) mint condition. Took them to a dealer in town to have them appraised… The guy looks at them and says that they are worth about 75 cents total…all the while I am looking down thru his glass case at a SINGLE '64 quarter with wear that he has priced at $7.50…I still have those quarters…
No, silver certificates do not allow you to redeem them for an equivalent face-value amount of silver, due to Federal law. You can redeem them for their face value in “legal tender”, which may or may not include real silver coins. Almost certainly, not real silver.
The value of most paper money is surprisingly low, relative to coins from the same era. I would keep them as being “neat things”, and not bother trying to sell them or use them.
You might check out this FAQ, and the associated newsgroup, rec.collecting.paper-money. Unfortunately, it seems to agree that the 1963 notes are worth only their face value. But it couldn’t hurt to check.
