For those passionate about fancy serial numbers on currency
If you’re perusing the bills in your wallet or purse, you may run across a bill that has four pairs of digits together, like 22559977. A term that has gained some traction is “four pair” or “quad pair” — an eight-digit serial number paired off into four pairs of identical digits. What are the odds … Read more
If you’re thumbing through your change looking for cool serial numbers, you may run across a bill that has eight consecutive digits but jumbled up. Something like 17456832. A term that has gained some traction is “mixed ladder” — being like a ladder serial number but mixed up. (Ladder serial numbers have the digits in … Read more
Bottom line up front: Collecting anything is a very personal pursuit and you don’t need any reason at all to collect things you enjoy. “Keep or spend?” This is a question that often comes up on my Facebook group. Someone will post a picture of a bill they’ve found, and ask: “Keep or spend?” They … Read more
What a bill is worth to you is different from what the same bill is worth to someone else. If you’re collecting bills, what the bill is worth to someone else doesn’t matter. Decide what the goal of your collection is, and use that to guide what you add or remove from your collection, and … Read more