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I got three dollar bills in change when I bought lunch yesterday. As the cashier counted them out, I noticed that one looked a little odd, but I just stuffed them in my pocket and didn't look closely at it until I got home, last evening.

It's a 1957 silver certificate!

I can't recall the last time I found one of those in circulation.

MarleysGh0st wrote:I got three dollar bills in change when I bought lunch yesterday. As the cashier counted them out, I noticed that one looked a little odd, but I just stuffed them in my pocket and didn't look closely at it until I got home, last evening.

It's a 1957 silver certificate!

I can't recall the last time I found one of those in circulation.

I have never come across one in 5 and a half years of Georging, and I've entered over 33,000 bills!

You can't even enter them over in WG. The Series menu only goes back to 1963A for ones, which was the first series for Federal Reserve notes....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:You can't even enter them over in WG. The Series menu only goes back to 1963A for ones, which was the first series for Federal Reserve notes....

Awww, too bad!

It looks like there's no collectors value for this circulated bill (maybe a dealer would pay $1.25 for it) so it would be funny stamping this with a Where's George tag. I think the impulse for folks to save it when they noticed it was a silver certificate would be a lot stronger than the impulse to log a hit and pass it on, though.

Still, somebody must have had this in a drawer for 50 years, before they--or their heirs--finally took it out and spent it!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:You can't even enter them over in WG. The Series menu only goes back to 1963A for ones, which was the first series for Federal Reserve notes....

Awww, too bad!

It looks like there's no collectors value for this circulated bill (maybe a dealer would pay $1.25 for it) so it would be funny stamping this with a Where's George tag. I think the impulse for folks to save it when they noticed it was a silver certificate would be a lot stronger than the impulse to log a hit and pass it on, though.

Still, somebody must have had this in a drawer for 50 years, before they--or their heirs--finally took it out and spent it!

One of the first straps of 50 ones I got when I first got into Georging was one that someone had to have gotten out of a drawer somewhere. All but 2 of the bills were from series in the 60's, 70's or 80's, and a lot of the bills were still pretty crisp. I saved some of the better ones from each series and entered the rest.

I actually have a combined 15 bills entered from both '63 series, and a smattering of others from the rest of the older series, but no silver certificates yet....

lb13

They're rare, but I still run across one every few years. I suspect that someone finds the bill(s) stuffed in Grandpa's dresser or attic when they're clearing out the old house, doesn't realize what it is and just spends it. But unless it's crisp and unused, it's still just worth a buck.

People latch onto dollar coins and the state quarters, thinking that they'll be collectors' items although there are literally hundreds of millions of each one, but then spend a bill which is so obviously different in appearance without thinking. That blue overprint is distinctive.