Category: Paper Money

  • 9 Questions with… J. Money

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    One of my favorite things about collecting, besides the coins themselves, are the people and history behind them.  There’s a reason columns such as “coin finds” (in Coins magazine) had to double their page space recently – people enjoy hearing the adventures of coin collectors! We love hearing the crazy stories and finds of theirs,…

    j money mustache
  • Lot of Twenty $5.00 Bill Star Notes!

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    So an interesting thing happened to me the other week: I got my hands on 20 – CONSECUTIVE – five dollar bill star notes :) All crisp as can be, and all for only $100 in trade! A friend of mine works at a restaurant, and apparently he came across these bills while breaking open…

    5 dollar star notes
  • Karma Rewards me w/ an Older $20 Bill

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    So only a few hours after finding (and turning over) that newer looking $20 bill, my trip to the bank pays off with this 1995 old school twenty! After asking the teller those few, yet calculated, words we always pray works out: “Have anything cool or old looking?” Usually you get back a “we’ve got…

    1995 20 dollar bill
  • Found a $20 Bill on the ground!

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    That was the good news…. The bad news? I also found a kid only a handful of steps away from it :( Though you never can tell when you ask someone “Is this your money?” The answer will almost certainly be a YES ;) I did check it out before passing it back though, just…

    $20 bill jackson
  • Package of coins in the mail!

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    I recently got a kick-ass package in the mail from a fellow blogger (and bank teller!), Ben from The Wealth Gospel. I had known he was sending me something since he had emailed me a few weeks back, but I thought at most it would be 4-5 coins. Not 75! Happy birthday to me! :)…

    foreign coins