1928 $50 STAR!!!

[@user-xq9ke6xl3r]

Very nice find! These early small size stars are pretty rare. In the Track and Price Census, only 10 of these are recorded, including the one shown. This note was listed from a previous sale in 2011 for $789.99 and was listed in grade 25. Thought you might like to know. It never hurts to have more information. Also, per the Standard Guide to Small Size U.S. Paper Money, only 24,000 were printed.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

Awesome info. Thanks!!

[@bettyfeliciano7322]

Great Scot!!!!! You have hit the motherload with that $50 star note!!! I almost dropped my phone when I saw the price of that star!!? Congratulations my friend!!!! 🙏🥰✝️

[@Ontario100]

Good collecting advice and love the $50 Star! ⭐ Great score!

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

Nice $50 ★! Looking at that guide, I would say that Dan would consider the Minneapolis version out of his range, I know it is out of mine barring actually playing and winning the lottery. Can't wait to see what the future has in store for stars, I have already stated my guesses about them. Those $50s in general were amongst my favorite designs of small sized notes, and definitely an area that I am looking into expanding soon.

[@72cmcinc]

What a beauty! I have a 1928 $50, but no star for me, still cool to have!

[@everythingcollectibles]

The Federal Reserve Notes made from 1928-1995 have to be my favorite, especially the ones made before 1977! Also, you have to admit, the most useless Dollar Bill Series of All Time is the recent 2017 A! 😏

[@blkcrypto]

Very cool note. Congrats on both finding it and getting such a good deal!

[@edwardsawtell5712]

Great note!

[@billhetland8070]

Hi Stu, Great pick up for the price. Congrats. 👍 Have a nice day and take care.🙏 Bill 😎👍

[@667hodge]

You're exactly right about 10's and 50's, especially small heads, even the modern 10's and 50's to a point.In the past couple years,Ive only come across a few of the $10 & $50 starnotes.Great pickup at that price 👍

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

As a cashier, I sort of am an anomaly. I see plenty of $10s and $50s on a near daily basis. However, they are indeed mostly modern, all colorized with the exception of a few monochrome $50s throughout the year. $10s, I still see them in monochrome and smallhead often enough, but mostly post 1990 with the security thread. Found a real shocker yesterday, a Series 1985 $10, it was in rough shape, but added it to my collection.

[@charlesadkins7067]

Great video

[@PolarCurrency]

Fantastic pickup Stu! Even for twice the price as you found out. Very nice.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

Reading some of the comments, this is even more ridiculously rare than I even thought!

[@HolyYuckles]

Beautiful note! Cant wait for the video of your top most expensive notes, that’ll be an interesting video!

[@The-Rickster-29]

Stu, there is a star Minneapolis FRBN $20 coming up on Heritage. They claim on 27 known. You need to get that brother! I scored an Atlanta FRBN $5 star there last week.

[@georgecampbell1453]

Sweet note Stu 👍

[@milktruck9345]

Great note. The star means it was a reprint because the original had an error. They still print stars you found dollars with them on.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

Stars replace error notes and keep the other notes in order. All notes remain sequential except for the star notes.

[@milktruck9345]

@@Stuplubakcurrency correct.

[@jeffshaw4039]

I like 50 dollar bills I don't have the gold federal reserve note. I like the one you have and it's a star note.

[@wakeupitsmagic]

Potential topic for a next video: interacting with tellers. Since I started collecting currency from the bank, I always have a hard time explaining to tellers that I am turning in a bunch of singles and requesting a new batch. They give me a strange or confused look at first. I have to explain to them I am a currency collector which tends to get things going. Is there an easier way of saying "hey I want to swap out the singles for different ones" or how do you usually go about picking up your weekly $1,000 singles because I am sure it has now become routine. Do you do it weekly from the same bank or different banks? And do you ever request straps specifically from the federal reserve versus locally circulated bills? Or it doesn't matter as much? Also, how do you ask tellers for older bills? I have asked a few times and have gotten responses like "no" or "yes I see them, and I take them" - one of the tellers is taking all the old stuff on site! Anyway, would appreciate a video topic on this if possible!

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

Wow! You are on the way to getting banned from your bank. It costs the bank money to order singles. It also costs the bank money to send them back to the reserve. You are creating a ton of work for your bank and costing them time and money. I do not recommend using the same bank. I get my singles from one bank. They have a bunch of people who regularly deposit large amounts of singles. They cater towards working people. Many bartenders, waitresses, and even a stripper or 2. When my bank gets 1000, they call me. I’m actually saving them money by taking the singles they would otherwise have to pay to send back. I return singles (200 at a time) to many other banks and branches. No one will ever get mad at 2 straps. While I’m doing this, I also make the comment, “ unless you want more?!”. Sometimes they say they need singles and take them all. Once again, I just saved them the cost of ordering money. Even when I brought back 10,000 singles from Vegas, I returned them 200 at a time to over 33 branches over the course of 2 weeks. No one got mad and everyone was happy to see me. That’s my advice. Good luck!

[@wakeupitsmagic]

@@Stuplubakcurrency I only ever request 200-300 singles at a time, I didn't know the bank can call you telling you that you can come pick up 1,000 singles. How do you set that up, with a teller? And how often do they call you? With it being a bank, I imagine they see money come and go pretty quickly, so I'd think they would have 1,000 singles available often, no?

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

@@wakeupitsmagic I have been there a long time. I have always been friendly with the tellers even before I started strap searching. It’s a credit union so it’s a much more relaxed atmosphere. I thought you were doing 1000. If it’s just 2-4 straps you should be fine but I would certainly dump them somewhere else. At the very least, it gives you a reason to go to another bank and see if they have any older notes. It’s all about being friendly and actually taking the stuff they offer.

[@Meow_Merchant]

Is there a good guide for collecting notes? Coins are easy because you can look up the mintages and get the date run. For example Mercury dimes 1916-1945 and then you've got P D and S typically - maybe some years skip the S and just have P and D. With notes I haven't seen anything like that if someone wanted to collect $20s you have gold certificates, the Hawaii, and Africa notes. National bank notes then the regular small head notes and varying print runs 2021, 2017, 1993, 1985, 1934 etc... Or with $1s, $5s, and $10s you've got different years and different color seals along with silver certificates. Then to top it all off there are 12 Federal Reserve Banks so maybe you want to focus on the bank closest to your state for me that would be San Francisco for others maybe New York or Ohio. There's a lot more when it comes to collecting notes it seems. And sure you could collect all the print run years for a given denomination + a note for each of the 12 banks, which seems extreme! I'm sure there are a handful of collections doing just that though.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

I use Paper money of the United States. It covers just about everything. It’s about $40 and can usually be found on Amazon or eBay.

[@massabesicgoldandsilver]

WOW! That is an awesome price on an awesome ⭐️ note. Would you send this note in to be graded, because it is substantially higher in value compared to the others? Great video.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

I’m considering it!

[@EmanuelsWorkbench]

Great 50. Do you know how many were printed on each sheet? If they printed 32 per sheet like they do today, that means that your note was the 99th sheet printed.

[@brainandforce]

It was 18 per sheet, 32-note sheets came later, and now we're transitioning to 50-note sheets!

[@lgcoolj5]

They don’t print star notes anymore? I had no idea. Why?

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

They are no longer required to print notes in order. Stars were used as space fillers to keep the numbers correct. They are still printing stars but I don’t know what they will use them for.

[@Qartvelian12]

That is an amazing note you have, very expensive as well 😄 I have a question about something different: how much does a 1928 $1 LT cost is it really supposed to be in the 140-200 range? I know it depends on condition but some prices seem inflated.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

That’s right. You can get a rough one for $100 but a better one is certainly in that range. I think I paid $190 for mine.

[@Qartvelian12]

@@Stuplubakcurrency Thanks for your help. Have a good day!

[@jonj6730]

I have another question. Have you heard of people having good luck at such places at estate sales ?. I wanted to know what other practices do you use instead of getting stacks of bills.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

I have bank accounts at 3 banks. I drive Uber so I do a lot of traveling. I have over 30 bank branches at my disposal and most know I collect. TBH, most of my stuff (this note included) comes from eBay.

[@jonj6730]

@@Stuplubakcurrency Thank you again for taking the time to respond.

[@robintraina217]

nice $5o

[@massimotudor]

Hi! I made a comparison between 2 1928 Tate dollars and 2 1976 dollars, the Tate is smaller , about 2mm in length

[@massimotudor]

what is the latest edition of paper money?

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

I’m going with shrinkage. They should be the same. The Blue book is the 22nd edition I believe. The one in this video is the newest.

[@trugojo-is4cv]

How do you know what’s legit when it comes to buying something off eBay I look at stuff all the time and find good deals but I don’t know what to trust

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

Trust feedback. If they have 100s of positive, they are fine. If this is their first sale, pass. Plus eBay backs your purchase for the most part.

[@trugojo-is4cv]

@@Stuplubakcurrency thank you!

[@michaelmeden9117]

That 50 dollar note is not even close to a vf grade. Not even close.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

It’s closer to 20 than 63.

[@michaelmeden9117]

@@Stuplubakcurrency And it is closer to a 5 than a 20. The value is way over inflated.

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

@@michaelmeden9117 You really need to improve your grading skills. This is most likely a 15. I’m not even sure if I have ever seen a 5 for a grade. This is one of only 10 known. So, yeah, you’re right. It’s probably just face value.

[@manasawalaaamir]

Where did u get this for 300

[@Stuplubakcurrency]

eBay