FUN Show Report. Epic Awesomeness Ensued!!!!!
Tookybandit
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I hit the bourse floor on Thursday and Friday and did my best to maximize my time ...as hard as I tried, I barely made it to half of the dealers in the room! The first day was a sell sell sell free for all as I unloaded coins that I brought hoping to free up enough funds to buy a note or two. The efforts were very successful and I lost a lot of weight throughout the day on Thursday! 
I have had my eye on a great note on Scott Lindquist's website and thankfully he had it with him at the show! This one is a mega tough $5 FRN 637 mule. All of the 637 examples on green seals are extremely scarce!
This note is a super scarce DGS non-mule in CCU from Robert Azpiazu!
I purchased this note as a Fine 12 regardless of what's on the holder. Really tough star with only 96,000 printed! Big thanks to a forum member for this one, much appreciated!!!
Before leaving the floor I lucked out and picked up a semi-fancy SN Numeral Seal note for cheap! It's not completely a radar or repeater but you do have to admit that it's definitely a cool SN note.
My goals for the show were already met by the end of the first day so the pressure was off! I had a great time seeing lots of friends/dealers/forum members, and went out for a few drinks with a group of the usual suspects.
What happened the next day still seems like a dream. There's a good chance that right now, as I type, I am still asleep and this is just a figment of my evil twisted imagination. I heard about a note on Thursday that was in for grading and what I was told just seemed way too good to be true. The source was a trusted friend so I had no reason to doubt them, but until I saw it with my own eyes it was pretty tough to believe what I had heard could really be true.
My favorite series of notes to collect are the 1928 Numeral Seal $20 FRN's. I post a ton of $5's on the forum, but for me, nothing beats these twenties! I have been building a set of both the regular issue and star notes by block and figured I was done for a while unless I had a chance to upgrade a note one of these days. The problem is some of the notes don't exist. Especially when it comes to the stars, many are not known above VF. So when I saw this note Friday morning and held it in my hands, I was a little bit dizzy and had to lean on the table for fear of passing out! Prior to this note, there were no examples graded above AU. Here is the only known example now officially in New! I really feel like this one deserves to be in a 65 holder. Maybe I'm greedy but the margins are massive and the registration is spot on. When I compared it to a few other notes, the top excess margin hung over the other notes significantly. I've rambled enough, here is my new favorite note!!! I am super excited and very thankful to have such an awesome note in my collection!
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I have had my eye on a great note on Scott Lindquist's website and thankfully he had it with him at the show! This one is a mega tough $5 FRN 637 mule. All of the 637 examples on green seals are extremely scarce!
This note is a super scarce DGS non-mule in CCU from Robert Azpiazu!
I purchased this note as a Fine 12 regardless of what's on the holder. Really tough star with only 96,000 printed! Big thanks to a forum member for this one, much appreciated!!!
Before leaving the floor I lucked out and picked up a semi-fancy SN Numeral Seal note for cheap! It's not completely a radar or repeater but you do have to admit that it's definitely a cool SN note.
My goals for the show were already met by the end of the first day so the pressure was off! I had a great time seeing lots of friends/dealers/forum members, and went out for a few drinks with a group of the usual suspects.
What happened the next day still seems like a dream. There's a good chance that right now, as I type, I am still asleep and this is just a figment of my evil twisted imagination. I heard about a note on Thursday that was in for grading and what I was told just seemed way too good to be true. The source was a trusted friend so I had no reason to doubt them, but until I saw it with my own eyes it was pretty tough to believe what I had heard could really be true.
My favorite series of notes to collect are the 1928 Numeral Seal $20 FRN's. I post a ton of $5's on the forum, but for me, nothing beats these twenties! I have been building a set of both the regular issue and star notes by block and figured I was done for a while unless I had a chance to upgrade a note one of these days. The problem is some of the notes don't exist. Especially when it comes to the stars, many are not known above VF. So when I saw this note Friday morning and held it in my hands, I was a little bit dizzy and had to lean on the table for fear of passing out! Prior to this note, there were no examples graded above AU. Here is the only known example now officially in New! I really feel like this one deserves to be in a 65 holder. Maybe I'm greedy but the margins are massive and the registration is spot on. When I compared it to a few other notes, the top excess margin hung over the other notes significantly. I've rambled enough, here is my new favorite note!!! I am super excited and very thankful to have such an awesome note in my collection!
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I like Cleveland $20 as well; the large 4 is cool as it is quite appropriate for a "four pairs" serial number note.
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5$ bills are WOW with the numbers - wanted:
02121809
04151865
Wanted - Flipper notes with the numbers 6-9 or 0-6-9 ON 1$ 2$ 5$ 10$ 20$
Wanted - 10$ Sereis 2013 - fancy Serial Numbers
And congratulations for you new additions to your collection! The Atlanta is unbelievable!
Wish I could have made it.
"GOT TO LOVE THEM SMALL SIZE DEUCES, SC's, LT's & FRN's"
John DeRocker
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Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.
Congrats for sure!!!!
Jim61
Looking for $1 CU FRN radar 16566561 - NOT ANY MORE, THANK YOU delistamps and TheRock!
Looking for $1 CU FRN radar 16977961.
Looking for $1 CU FRN 99999961 - NOT ANY MORE, THANK YOU delistamps!
Looking for $50 FRN 00000061
Looks like you did well!
I will echo the sentiments about that $20 F*