Has anybody ever found a silver certificate?

[gtfan76]

If so.....how did you do it?

 

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[dave5710]

Back in the 1970's, & 1980's. The cashiers where I worked would sell them to me. Recently one of my custumers sold me a large $5.00 bill. Once in a great while one of my bank tellers will sell me a red seal or blue seal note. I heard that red seals are somewhat more common in $2.00 bills.

I stopped one of my co-workers form putting one into the instant lottery machine at work, a while back. What thanks did I get? She kept it. She didn't want it too bad before I stopped her!!

There is a currency/paper money forum here. Ask those folks.

 

[gtfan76]

ha that same thing happened with me and this cashier with a silver dime. anyway thanks for the help

 

[coinmojo]

Every now and then. But usually pretty tattered.

Mojo

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

ive never found one myself, but will keep on trying, cuz they r out there!

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?board=346.0
link to paper currencies board.

 

[twinsrule]

I would ask the paper currencies forum. Although they don't get as much traffic as this forum, they still would be of help. By the way, they even do their own version of "coin roll hunting!" Except its more like "bill stack hunting" Still, it sounds like fun looking for all the interestion serial #s and star notes and silver certificates,

 

[GMan00001]

If so.....how did you do it?

yes, I have gotten 4 or 5 of them in the past few years. 1 here, 1 there. My favorites though are the United States Bills with the Red Seals or the older bills from the 1920's and 1930's.


How did I do it?
Um...by asking the teller if they have any old bills... Or sometimes I just ask for the old style "small headed" bills. Yet other times I just buy $100-$200 in ones and look through them (similar to CRH but with bills)

 

[gtfan76]

That sound cool. i might have to give that a try. thanks

gtfan76

 

[Rich Hartford]

There is a coin store that I go to who always gives in change a silver certificate or a Kennedy fiver. He rubber stamps his business logo on the back of the bill.
HH
Rich

 

[d2arcing]

have gotten a few from cash registers, and when was little aunt gave for birthdays

 

[how u do n]

They are out there.
This year two different banks thought of me when someone cashed them in.
I always try to be super nice to the ladies, you never know when it will pay off.
Just keep looking they are out there, but most will be worth face value only.
Gl
HH

 

[Produce Guy]

I used to be a checker at a Safeway and I found one in my till one day and later I bought it.

 

[timbobwey]

I have, I run a register at workand sometimes some cool stuff comes through. My best find was a 1934 $20 bill, pretty sweet condition too.

 

[BJT312]

I have only found one and I've been working at credit union for over two years. They are definately few and far between. Oddly enough, I received a $5 silver certificate in change from a Dunkin Donuts once.

 

[gold eye]

HI i found twentey six one dollar silver certificates last month i always ask the tellers at the banks if anyone has turned in any old paper money they are posted on the paper currenices site. happy hunting RON

 

[WishfulThinker]

Old bills are taken out of circulation by serial numbers .. and with the turnover of the money supply, they are all nice new clean freshly printed Federal Reserve Notes

 

[mistergee]

i have over 100 in various denominations and ages. some were gifts and the rest i found. you can ask for batches of bills to search or do as some suggested and ask for old bills.

 

[srcdco]

Old bills are not removed from circulation by serial number, they are removed based on condition. Banks sort out the "mutilated" currency and return it as such. Then it is accounted for and destroyed at the Federal Reserve (or one of it's branches). If old currency is redeemed at the bank and no tellers are interested in it, then it will be passed out if it is in good enough condition.

Many years ago I got 125 $1 silver certificates at a bank just because I asked if they had any old bills. Someone had brought them in the previous day. I asked them what they were going to do with them and they told me that they were going to go through them, sort out any "mute" bills and pass out the rest to customers, until I asked for them. Only two years ago, I asked for some $2 bills at my local bank and the teller got out a fresh strap. I jokingly asked if she ever got any red seals and she said rarely. Then she looked through the bundle and there were four in it. I got those. They were all 1928s. So they are still out there and they will be recirculated as long as they are in good enough condition.

Scott