My First Currency Purchases

PROMETHIUS88

Been in cards for years and also have dabbled in coins my entire life. I've always enjoyed looking at currency and I would rather have some colorful older notes but I've always wanted a $500 FRN. While they've had them before, I never paid much attention but for some reason I decided I needed one now. It's not the most beautiful note you will ever see but I pulled the trigger.

Couple weeks later I see they have another one but not as nice. Thought maybe I would need to put 2 of them back since I have two daughters. Since it wasn't as nice, I decided to hold off. That's when the shop owner said they just got in a #1k FRN.
Well, if you have a $500, might as well have a $1k, right? I think the price was actually amazing from what I see the typical note sell for on Ebay. It's not without it's issues but I'm happy to have it. The lower serial# was interesting to me as well.
I'll never own a $5k or $10k so these will satisfy my itch for the time being.

Steve_in_Tampa

Congratulations. You’re sure to get plenty of oohs and ahhs showing this pair off.

johnny9434

way cool. i just gotta save up for the thousand $ note yet. happy hunting

PillarDollarCollector

Is the 1000$ note not considered a low serial number adding extra value? Nice pick ups!!!

coinandcurrency242

congrats!! Very nice pair!

golden

I have only owned one $1000 FRN and one $500 GC. I have neither now.

Steve_in_Tampa

My former pair…

Glen2022

I have wanted to take a $1K note to a convenience store and present it for a small purchase to see what the clerk would say/do. Might be interesting. No, I would not complete the purchase with it.

asheland

Awesome notes! I’ve still never owned a large denomination before, maybe one of these days…

PROMETHIUS88

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
Is the 1000$ note not considered a low serial number adding extra value? Nice pick ups!!!

Honestly, I don't know. I'm not really sure if this is considered low since it's not single or double digits.

PillarDollarCollector

@PROMETHIUS88 said:

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
Is the 1000$ note not considered a low serial number adding extra value? Nice pick ups!!!

Honestly, I don't know. I'm not really sure if this is considered low since it's not single or double digits.

Maybe someone here can answer that question?

PROMETHIUS88

Well, I don't think my $1k above will stay in my hands for long. My shop got in 2 MUCH nicer $1k notes and I will probably need to sell this one out to afford one of the other ones. I'll try to post a pic of it later!

Steve_in_Tampa

@KingOfMorganDollar said:

@PROMETHIUS88 said:

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
Is the 1000$ note not considered a low serial number adding extra value? Nice pick ups!!!

Honestly, I don't know. I'm not really sure if this is considered low since it's not single or double digits.

Maybe someone here can answer that question?

Most collectors consider any 8-digit note with 5 leading zeros to be low serial number.

Jimnight

Nice ones!

PROMETHIUS88

So, I sold my low serial $1k FRN and bought a nicer one and it's currently in encapsulation at PMG. I will post pics when that makes it way back home.
In the meantime, picked up a couple notes yesterday at the LCS. The horseblanket will probably be given away as a gift, I was happy to get my first gold certificate.

PROMETHIUS88

Just back from grading. Thought it might grade a little higher but happy overall.

stevereecy

Looks great. The EPQ designation on the $1000 is not easy. And that $10 gold cert is super nice. You should have it graded too.