My Collection, sort of...

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:18 am

So one time I got an old $100 in a stack of money and it made me think.(

) I hardly ever see the old bills around so I figured that I would hang on to it. I kept my eyes open and over the last few years this is what I've collected. Some of it was found in change, one of the Fives I took out of a guys hand in line in front of me and promptly replaced it with a new $5. He thought I was nuts. Anyways, I found another $5 today. When I added it to the pile I figured I'd take a picture. Then I decided to post it here....for some reason.

Enjoy!

Yes I know the $1s and $2s haven't changed, but the $2 is old(1995) and the $1 I just through in for a sense of symmetry.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:31 am

1995 is old???

-slym (must be ancient then)

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:22 am

slym2none wrote:1995 is old???

-slym (must be ancient then)

Not old, but that is about when our paper money started to get a face lift. I think the oldest in the bunch is 1976. 33 years is a long time for a piece of paper to be in circulation.

And yes Slym, you are old.

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:22 am

You should hang out with this guy.

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:55 am

I had no idea there was such a thing as a $100 bill . . . amazing what they come up with nowadays . . .

Maybe one day soon I will see one in person . . .

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:20 am

Yes, "dollers" . . . .

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:05 pm

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:51 pm

When I was younger I started collecting bills from each one of the mints... I started with ones and fives.. a few tens.. but then Nintendo came along.. or maybe it was a cool Robotech toy...LOL.. It was fun while it lasted

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:02 pm

I actually think it's pretty cool to have a collection of bills from different years . . . it's just that I have to keep giving mine to the credit card companies . . .

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:40 pm

Hey, at least you don't need a price guide.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:24 pm

I consider this to be an old piece of paper money:

I wonder what prompted the change from Monticello on the back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

-slym

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:49 pm

slym2none wrote: I wonder what prompted the change from Monticello on the back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

Perhaps the bi-centennial of 1976.

siren3-4 wrote:I actually think it's pretty cool to have a collection of bills from different years . . . it's just that I have to keep giving mine to the credit card companies . . .

I always wanted a briefcase like Dr. Brown's in Back to the Future II, with money from all time periods.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:09 pm

greg wrote:
slym2none wrote: I wonder what prompted the change from Monticello on the back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Perhaps the bi-centennial of 1976.

OK, then why just the $2 bill? Why not ALL of the bills???

-slym

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:11 pm

slym2none wrote:
greg wrote:
slym2none wrote: I wonder what prompted the change from Monticello on the back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Perhaps the bi-centennial of 1976.
OK, then why just the $2 bill? Why not ALL of the bills???

-slym

They changed the quarter, half-dollar and dollar coins . . .

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:48 pm

slym2none wrote:I consider this to be an old piece of paper money:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4125 ... yall01.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8531 ... yall02.jpg

-slym

Sure, but you aren't likely to find that in circulation. I haven't gone out of my way to find these. I just don't spend them when I get one.

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:50 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:Hey, at least you don't need a price guide.

Exactly! They'll always be worth what I paid.....not like that Solar #10 back in the day.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:55 pm

Blood of Heroes wrote:
slym2none wrote:I consider this to be an old piece of paper money:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4125 ... yall01.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8531 ... yall02.jpg

-slym

Sure, but you aren't likely to find that in circulation. I haven't gone out of my way to find these. I just don't spend them when I get one.

I pulled that $2 bill out of the cash register of the store I was working at.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:57 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:
slym2none wrote:
greg wrote:
slym2none wrote: I wonder what prompted the change from Monticello on the back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Perhaps the bi-centennial of 1976.
OK, then why just the $2 bill? Why not ALL of the bills???

-slym
They changed the quarter, half-dollar and dollar coins . . .

COINS... I'm talking about bills. This is the only one that has actually changed. The design on the "new" bills might be altered slightly, but it's still the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the five, the White House on the back of the 20, and so on...

-slym (like anyone uses the dollar coins anyways...)

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:07 pm

slym2none wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:
slym2none wrote:I consider this to be an old piece of paper money:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4125 ... yall01.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8531 ... yall02.jpg

-slym

Sure, but you aren't likely to find that in circulation. I haven't gone out of my way to find these. I just don't spend them when I get one.
I pulled that $2 bill out of the cash register of the store I was working at.

-slym

No *SQUEE*! That's quite a find.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:26 pm

Blood of Heroes wrote:
I pulled that $2 bill out of the cash register of the store I was working at.

-slym

No *SQUEE*! That's quite a find.

Thanks! Too bad it's been folded and creased (and maybe pressed?

) so badly...

-slym

sckao · Post by **sckao** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:40 pm

Those old $100 dollar bills are a nightmare at Comic Conventions for dealers.

Some are counterfeit... (I don't mean yours.)

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:51 pm

sckao wrote:Those old $100 dollar bills are a nightmare at Comic Conventions for dealers.

Some are counterfeit... (I don't mean yours.)

They should invest in a few of those counterfeit detection pens.

-slym

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:27 am

sckao wrote:Those old $100 dollar bills are a nightmare at Comic Conventions for dealers.

Some are counterfeit... (I don't mean yours.)

Boom! Studios would rather take a $100 bill than a $2 bill at a comic show.

And for that, they can still kiss my *SQUEE* even though I am buying Boom comics again.

kryptonitecomics · Post by **kryptonitecomics** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:36 am

For those that don't know...I am also a coin collector. In addition to coins I have collected old currency for years and while money issues have forced me to sell off most of the older notes I still have some fractional currency from the 1860's if anyone would like to see images?

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:10 pm

kryptonitecomics wrote:For those that don't know...I am also a coin collector. In addition to coins I have collected old currency for years and while money issues have forced me to sell off most of the older notes I still have some fractional currency from the 1860's if anyone would like to see images?

Absolutely!

When I was a kid I collected coins. Well, my dad collected them for me. I think they are packed away somewhere. All that old stuff is cool. 1860's is pretty old!