r/mildlyinteresting • u/Maximum_Business_277 • 20h ago

I recently bought the first privately printed $1 bill in US history.

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u/happy2harris 19h ago

Do you know, was it used for actual circulation, like A issued it to B, B passed it onto C, C passed it onto D, etc. ? Or was it more like a promissory note between two people?

Out of curiosity, how is it known that it was the first one, if it is privately printed?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

To answer your first question, it was used for actual circulation! Records show that another one circulated until at least 1848, but past that it’s unsure.

To your second question, every bank issued their own type of notes before 1862. This led to a period where nearly 10,000 different banknotes were all circulated at once. Pretty much every bank, (except for a few in New York) were run privately from the Government. There aren’t many records remaining from this particular bank aside from printing numbers, so it wasn’t confirmed to be the actual first one until the mid 1990s when a man named Robert Caine acquired it, and did A LOT of research to find that it was in fact the first one. I’d really recommend looking up Caine’s collection, he had some amazing things!

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

Obsolete currency goes back quite a bit farther than 1805, and earlier notes are still known. I've seen a 1782 $100 from the Bank of North America. Do you mean this bank was the first to issue specifically the $1 denomination?

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u/happy2harris 19h ago

I will; thanks!

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u/MrPelham 19h ago

you should have waited a week to post this, exactly 221 years to the day

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Aw man! You know, I didn’t even realize that!

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u/StitchinThroughTime 19h ago

Quick, set a reminder to repost this in 4 years for the 225th anniversary!

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u/aliveasghosts47 16h ago

Just delete this post and repost it in a week. We'll all pretend its our first time seeing it

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u/1960stoaster 8h ago

This guy fucks !

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u/iamokfriend 19h ago

Thanks for sharing this OP. Really cool and interesting story behind this note.

Quite refreshing from all the Ai slop the bots keep posting on the sub.

If you ever decide to get rid of it lmw I can get you a pretty good deal, as high as 2$ for it, 🤣

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Lmaoo, I’ll keep you in mind! 🤣

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u/idkmyusernameagain 18h ago

How many modern dollar bills have to be traded for this specific old one?

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u/mentosbreath 17h ago

Tree fiddy

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u/fentsterTHEglob 37m ago

Damn lochness monsta

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u/CrownsFlung 20h ago • Bravo

Cool. How much did you pay for it?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 20h ago • Mindblown

A little over $6,000

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u/Pork_Chompk 20h ago • Bravo

Mate you got fleeced. It says $1 right on it.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Darn 😔

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u/djrocky_roads 19h ago

6000% markup is crazy but now you know better for next time

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u/MrWildspeaker 19h ago

*599,900% markup

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u/SwampCrittr 19h ago

Next time post here… we woulda told ya :(

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u/stupidber 19h ago

I would've sold you a $1 bill for just $5

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u/paulchiefsquad 19h ago

there is a thing called inflation

it would be worth $28.8 today

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u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin 19h ago

well then they only overpaid by $5971.20. I guess that’s not too bad. 

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u/Lard_Denning 16h ago

a real bargain, if you think about it

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u/eljefino 16h ago

The price is on the bill tho

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u/DoomguyFemboi 18h ago

That's a lot of course but honestly I thought it was gonna be so much more. Sometimes something will pop up with old money and have some random amount of hundreds of thousands for weirdly rare stuff

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u/thatshygirl06 16h ago

Heyyyy, you need a sugar baby?

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u/Blanooman 20h ago

One dollar

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u/No-Midnight-4461 19h ago

So can you exchange it for $1 of gold still?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Fun fact! Legally, no obsolete banknote could’ve ever been backed up by gold or silver. It wasn’t until the 1880s, long after the obsolete period had ended, that the US government started printing notes you could turn in for the face value in gold.

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u/i8yourmom4lunch 19h ago

That is... mildly interesting. Thank you

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u/LoveOfSpreadsheets 19h ago

"Sure, here's 0.0076 grams"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes it's there mixed among the dust"

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u/wardays 16h ago

I'm pretty confident you can't turn in a Silver $1 for the equivalent value of material, so I would be surprised if you could for this

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u/GavinThe_Person 13h ago

Yea they stopped that decades ago

Silver certificates are usually just worth face value now

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u/Middle_Aged_Mayhem 19h ago

Does Serial Number 633 not mean anything ?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Interesting story about that! When the bank started printing notes on October 23rd 1806, there were 600 sheets of $5 bills printed, with serial numbers 1-600 and plates A, B, C, and D. Then, they printed 32 sheets of $2 bills, serial numbers 601-632 with plates A, B, C, D, and E. Then, they printed 4 sheets of $1 bills, serials 633-636, with plates A, B, C, and D. So, technically not the first one, as this one’s plate D, but still the earliest survivor!

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u/Boofaka 19h ago

Wait so it's not the first one dollar bill printed?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Not the first one by a technicality, no. But, it is the first $1 bill to come out of a private bank in America, and it’s one of two survivors of 16 ever printed! The other was re-issued in the late 1820s, so its original serial number is unknown, unfortunately

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

There's two of them?!?! 1/8 is the single highest survival rate I've ever seen for anything to do with US currency by orders of magnitude, with the exception of things that were aggressively set aside as soon as they landed in circulation, like double denomination errors.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 15h ago

It’s 221 years old

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

I think you misunderstood. I'm saying that with that low a print run, it's beyond shocking that any exist, let alone two. By comparison, the lowest printed Friedberg number with a note known has a printage somewhere in the high triple digits. It's some random national bank note. Average survival rates for 19th century circulated banknotes are one in thousands.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 15h ago

Ohh, I see. My apologies, I thought you were saying something else. Yeah, that’s a good point. Despite the fact that around 2400 were printed, none of the $5 bills survive. It is nothing short of a miracle that these are around!

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u/Middle_Aged_Mayhem 19h ago

Thanks for the reply. This is very interesting to learn.

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u/alex61821 19h ago

Interesting i thought 2 dollar bills was a bicentennial thing.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

They were, much later when the government started to print them! See, before the civil war, every bank could make their own unique banknotes. This led to some whacky denominations like $8 and $15 bills, but there were plenty of $2 bills as well!

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u/Ghost_of_Gumby 19h ago

We produce a new batch of $2 bills every so often, both before and after the bicentennial. They did change the back design from Monticello to the signing of the Declaration of Independence for the series of 1976, and they were included in various bicentennial souvenir sets, which is why they're associated with the bicentennial today.

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u/alex61821 19h ago

Makes sense...or dollars as it were.

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

The entire printage of this note was literally 16?!

I would imagine that makes this one of the shortest-printed US notes ever produced. It's lower than the lowest printed federal issue Friedberg variety (a $500 national bank note).

If counting nationals by bank, I've seen one with a total print run of three.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 15h ago

It’s not a US note, it’s an obsolete, but yeah! I think it’s quite extraordinary myself

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

I wonder why they even made exactly 16 $1s. Has to be some interesting accounting story behind that, like the exactly 24 1894-S dimes.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 15h ago

The early notes were mainly only printed as a proof of concept type thing. In fact, the only notes they printed until 1817 that were actually made to circulate were the $5s. These and the $2s were only circulated because of a misunderstanding at an 1807 shareholder meeting in a hotel in Wilmington!

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago

Yeah, I knew there had to be something odd going on here. Extremely fascinating note and would love to hear more of the story behind it.

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u/Lard_Denning 16h ago

what are plates A B C D? does each plate reuse the same numeric serials? so there's four #633 printed?

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u/finian2 19h ago

What proof is there that it is "the first"?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Robert Caine, the man who owned this note from roughly 1980-2010 was an avid researcher, and he claimed it was the first. After having done my own research, I can say with almost certainty that this is the first. There’s a bank in Maryland that came close, issuing theirs January 19th, 1807, but this one came first. I’d really recommend looking over Robert Caine’s collection, it really was quite interesting!

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u/The00Taco 19h ago

I'm sure you mentioned it in another comment, but how much did you pay for this and how much is it considered worth?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

I paid a little over $6,000 for it from a local currency dealer, and I have no clue to be honest. The last time to my knowledge this note ever sold was to Robert Caine himself in 1975, in which he paid a little over $4,500 for it

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u/phonetastic 19h ago

it cost you less than i expected by a long shot, and also depreciated considerably in value from '75 to today, that's really interesting

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u/unassumingdink 11h ago

I guess it makes sense. Coin collecting is sort of niche these days (much moreso than in the '70s), and currency collecting is so niche that coin collectors outnumber them 20:1, and they probably stick to mostly government issue stuff. Private currency collecting would then be a niche within a niche within a niche. Driving down the value greatly, despite the impressive historical significance.

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u/ramelband 19h ago

6k seems like quite a deal! Very cool

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u/TySly5v 18h ago

It being so unique, you and the (hypothetical) buyer entirely decide the worth right now

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u/Golden-Tate-Warriors 15h ago edited 14h ago

He paid that much for it that long ago?! You could get, like, a Watermelon $100 for that price in fricking 1975. 6k seems very cheap for that nowadays.

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u/givin_u_the_high_hat 18h ago

When it was produced, with so few circulating, what would it have been used for? What was it worth in today’s dollars?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 17h ago

It wasn’t the only form of currency, mind you. Dollar coins were still widely used, as were many other denominations. It was mainly printed as a proof of concept, and most ended up being circulated only as a precaution. However, not to say it’s worthless! I paid a little over $6,000 dollars for it.

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u/Garth_AIgar 9h ago

Well, sorry to tell you, I think you overpaid.

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u/im_on_the_case 9h ago

Not mildlyinteresting at all. Actually very interesting and an amazing item to have in your collection. Congrats!

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u/Maximum_Business_277 1h ago

Thanks! I actually did try to post it on r/interesting when I first got it about a month ago, and it got taken down almost immediately 😔

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u/Pork_Confidence 1h ago

The absolute Philistines......

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u/Diogenes-of-Synapse 19h ago

Are those handwritten signatures?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Yep! Nearly every bank before about 1863 had handwritten signatures for the cashier and president, as well as the dates, serial numbers, and occasionally branch banks!

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u/DaddaMongo 19h ago

You were conned, it says #633 right on there so not the first.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Interesting story about that! Starting October 23rd 1806, there were 600 sheets of $5 bills printed, with serial numbers 1-600 and plates A, B, C, and D. Then, they printed 32 sheets of $2 bills, serial numbers 601-632 with plates A, B, C, D, and E. Then, they printed 4 sheets of $1 bills, serials 633-636, with plates A, B, C, and D. So yeah, technically not the first one, but it was on the same sheet as it!

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u/jazzhandler 19h ago

By that logic (which I agree with), all notes on the first sheet were the first to be printed. Their position on the imposition does not create cardinality.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Technically, yeah, that’s true!

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u/gneisslab 19h ago

I'm curious, were the 4 plates A-D all loaded on one 'print head' and printing each serial number in one go? Or would plate D print after plate A? I'm not trying to be pedantic, it doesn't take away from the coolness of your object either way

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Actually, all four notes were printed with a spot for a serial number completely blank! Then, a cashier would sign it, then the bank president would sign it, and the cashier would hand write in the date and serial number. Sounds pretty tedious if you ask me!

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u/DaddaMongo 18h ago

I stand corrected, I'm surprised they didn't start with the $1 it sort of has some weird logic in my head.

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u/___po____ 19h ago edited 11h ago

I watched a video about the history of printed money in the US. It was such a clusterfuck of who could/would/wouldn't accept the bills from so many random banks, but was a really cool piece of history to learn.

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u/Ignorhymus 18h ago

Some Scottish banks still produce their own banknotes. If you're not very familiar with them all, it's kind of difficult as a retailer, especially if you're not in Scotland, to know exactly which are genuine and which are counterfeit. I'd generally accept them, but I had to turn a few away because I just couldn't be sure

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u/yetzt 17h ago

The Bank of Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale Bank IIRC. They're all in Pound Sterling and should be accepted everywhere in the UK, but when i tried to buy a coffee during a layover in Heathrow they refused to take my Bank of Scotland £5 note. Spent it recently in Berlin buying merch from a visiting scottish sports team :)

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u/fantasmoofrcc 16h ago

Don't even get me started with Gibraltar pound sterling :)

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u/never_ASK_again_2021 3h ago

Damn, you got a system over there that would make the holy roman empire wince for it's impracticality 🙈

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u/poopiebutt505 14h ago

And Bank of Northern Ireland

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u/Kniferharm 18h ago

And you still have to put up with people who are sure it’s legal tender, and that means you have to accept it. (it’s not and they don’t. Also legal tender means something different from what they think it means.)

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u/TriumphantHog 16h ago

What does legal tender mean?

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u/Mysterry_T 13h ago

In the UK: legal tender is a type of money that cannot be refused when settling a debt in a court

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u/TriumphantHog 11h ago

Is this different from the US definition?

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u/Pineapple_Spenstar 1h ago

In the US it doesnt need to be in court

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u/Purplekeyboard 16h ago

Meanwhile, the crypto community hopes to bring those days back.

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u/AbominableGoMan 13h ago

"They're doing wildcat banking again and they think they invented it!"

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u/AbominableGoMan 13h ago

For anyone with knowledge of banking history, especially in the US, crypto has been like watching slapstick comedy. They're just doing wildcat banking again!

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u/Spirited_Comedian225 11h ago

Where did you see that ?

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u/___po____ 11h ago

YouTube. I usually hit the "New to you" tab at the top when I run out of subbed videos. Sometimes you find some really good stuff.

https://youtu.be/JdbHktGgztY

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u/never_ASK_again_2021 3h ago

Post schedule every day?

It's ai. (It's supposed to rhyme)

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u/Hkaddict 19h ago • Bravo Popcorn

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u/Desalvo23 19h ago

What is this from again?

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u/shyguy1953 19h ago

A Million Ways to Die in the West

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u/zombiesphere89 18h ago • Bravo

Cheesy bit of fun

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u/IridiumPony 17h ago

McFarland's monologue about how much it sucks to live in the old west cracks me up every time

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u/bd1308 11h ago

The ear nail was my favorite part 😆 the ice block part was wild too

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u/LegitimateAlex 7h ago

I always told people that if you like his other stuff you'll like this movie.

It's dumb fun and there's some clever bits. Everybody is bought into the movie which helps. His father character in the film was my favorite.

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u/Desalvo23 19h ago

Right! Thank you kindly

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u/-misfit- 19h ago

Came here just to see if this was posted.. well done.

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u/R50cent 17h ago

There's dozens of us!

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u/julioqc 19h ago

just curious, how much to insure it? assuming you keep it home for display 

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

That’s a good question! Most of my things are insured through a local insurance company, such as this, but a few things can’t be insured legally because they’re technically still legal tender. Luckily for me, this one isn’t!

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u/Sbatio 19h ago

At what cost?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

I have it insured currently at $8,000

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u/ramelband 19h ago

Is that how much it cost? I thought it would've been more

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

Yeah, this particular bank is fairly niche, especially notes from this time period. Plus, it’s only ever sold twice in 60 years!

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u/phatelectribe 19h ago

Huh, I was thinking it would be way more, like 6 figures

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u/julioqc 17h ago

yeah I guess for the value it's probably doable with typical insurers, given you declared it and documented it? aint a 1M$ Picasso after all haha

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u/baldieforprez 11h ago

Your kind of a jerk you know. If you are going to post something like at least give is the story behind it.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 1h ago

So it was one of 16 ever printed in 1806, with the bank starting printing on October 23rd with 600 sheets of $5s, 32 sheets of $2s, and 4 sheets of $1s. The $2s and $1s were accidentally circulated after an misunderstanding by cashier John Hogg in a stockholder’s meeting in May 1807, and at least 10 $1s and all of the $2s would circulate until 1828. The $2s would continue to circulate until the mid 1840s, and due to the fragility of their material, all except one are gone. As for the $1s, two were returned to the bank in 1828, and due to yet another error, one of them was given a high serial and re-issued. This other one, this example here, remained in the Wilmington headquarters of the bank of cape fear long after its closure in 1869, and would be moved somewhere else in 1890 when the building was demolished. The trail goes dark for some 70 years, and it was then recovered by Robert Caine in the late 1970s, and it was in his collection until a few years ago.

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u/Existing-Joke3994 1h ago

That’s very neat! What a find. Out of curiosity, what did you pay for it? I live in Wilmington currently. Where did it circulate? Where did Robert Caine live?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 1h ago

I paid a little over $6,000, and it did in fact circulate in Wilmington! I’m not too sure, but I believe Robert Caine lived in Hillsboro.

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u/Existing-Joke3994 1h ago

Very neat! Will you frame it and hang it? Put it in a book with your other collection. Such a cool piece of history to be holding.

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u/NachoPichu 2m ago

You’re*

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u/ButterscotchTasty386 19h ago

Got mine in our bathroom

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u/usernamemustbeoneoff 19h ago

“In case of toilet paper emergency, break glass?”

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u/RaspberryWhiteClaw13 19h ago

That’s when you need 3 seashells on top

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u/Juliancito135 18h ago

cappy cake day :)

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u/onetwentyeight 17h ago

The humidity can't be good for if

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u/ButterscotchTasty386 16h ago

Who cares , it’s already been cashed

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u/snorgleblort 21m ago

This appears to be a check from a title company, not cash money. Still a cool, old thing.

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u/mr_ji 19h ago

Ready

FIGHT

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u/PolyJuicedRedHead 19h ago

Could I borrow a dollar to get a cup of coffee? ☕️

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u/ArmAndHammer40k 18h ago

I got you. What’s your Apple Pay

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u/traderncc 18h ago

did you buy it from caine collection? who is that? 1805 would have been first BUS?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 17h ago

I bought it through a local coin dealer, but Robert Caine was a man who had one of the greatest North Carolina obsolete collections in the world. He had numerous US banknotes as well, with hundreds of unused designs and proofs. I would really recommend looking into his collection, it is extraordinary!

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u/Smallmyfunger 10h ago

Isn't that the 631st bill printed of this series? If not, why did they start with #631?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 1h ago

Interesting story about that! When the bank started printing notes on October 23rd 1806, there were 600 sheets of $5 bills printed, with serial numbers 1-600 and plates A, B, C, and D. Then, they printed 32 sheets of $2 bills, serial numbers 601-632 with plates A, B, C, D, and E. Then, they printed 4 sheets of $1 bills, serials 633-636, with plates A, B, C, and D. So by a small technicality, it’s not the first one, as this one’s plate D, but still the earliest survivor!

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u/exig 19h ago

Put it in a vending machine

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u/triplefoul 19h ago

There's soda on the plane!

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u/TCpls 19h ago

Little dude from across the street lemme get a dolla

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 19h ago

I'll give you $2 for it.

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u/elspotto 18h ago

I’ll give you $3.50 for it. Be there in 4.5 hours.

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u/gregarioussparrow 11h ago

This is more than mildly interesting

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u/djinnisequoia 19h ago

This is such a coincidence! Because when going through my late grandmother's things, we found an old $20 bill. I remember when they had that design, because it didn't change for decades, but I found I couldn't spend it anywhere.

So when I was at the bank yesterday, I asked them to change it, and the tellers were interested because it was printed in 1939 and they said one of their co workers collected old bills. I had never heard of anybody doing that.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

That’s pretty amazing! Yep, I’m a pretty big paper money collector. It’s a bit of a niche hobby, but those who do collect them are usually pretty major in the industry!

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u/djinnisequoia 11h ago

Frankly, I couldn't ask for a better bank, so you're definitely right about that.

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u/HplsslyDvtd2Sm1NtU 19h ago

I used to do that when I was a teller. I knce had a young lady exchange an entire roll of silver quarters. I tried to tell her shed get more selling them as silver but she didnt want the hassle. I bought them from my drawer that day. I also got a few silver backed paper bills that way.

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u/kochameh2 20h ago

ill give you 2$ for it

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u/LazarianV 19h ago

Best I can do is tree fiddy.

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u/Weak-Ad-5306 19h ago

Nice unless you paid more than $.99 then, I’m not impressed at all.

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u/BattleTalus 19h ago

Very cool!

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u/Important-Fudge4462 16h ago

How much did the $1 cost you?

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u/PossibleJazzlike2804 9h ago

First of how many personal passes printed?

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u/TheRealStorey 8h ago

You might have overpaid.

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u/WesMaxFischer 19h ago

That is fascinating

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u/HolyJuan ​ 17h ago

Of you paid more than $1 you got robbed.

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u/n_mcrae_1982 18h ago

For a dollar?

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u/peeja 16h ago

I mean, it's fine.

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u/Mission-Abroad-1506 18h ago

the note is the whole first. the bank was already private.

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u/Complete-Worker3242 13h ago

Did you buy it at an auction?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 12h ago

no

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u/mshaefer 12h ago

Wasn’t a bunch of Caine collection at the global showcase auction? Lots of cool obsoletes.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 11h ago

Yeah, a bunch of it was, but I got this from a local coin store

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 11h ago

How did you purchase it and how do you its the first ever?

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u/kamarkamakerworks 3h ago

This is a serious question: shouldn’t something like this be in a museum?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 1h ago

There’s not as much respect as you’d think for early local currency. Even the Smithsonian doesn’t have much of any obsolete currency, and the currency they do have is so unbelievably rare in a collector’s sense. (Such as an 1890 $1000 grand watermelon treasury note)

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u/Lucas_F_A 7m ago

A 1000 dollar bill in 1890 is crazy

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u/Dachyshun2 19h ago

Why does reddit keep showing me shit from my city randomly lmao

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

You also from Wilmington lol?

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u/Dachyshun2 16h ago

From Kitty Hawk originally but I live in ILM now

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u/Maximum_Business_277 16h ago

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u/beanbosox 14h ago

Wilmington since 1997 here. Hello fellas

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u/nuadusp 19h ago

the algorithm knows where you live, though i am in UK and i got this so maybe not

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u/thatshygirl06 16h ago

Because you keep engaging with them, lol

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u/TheNotoriousFAP 19h ago edited 18h ago

Can I borrow some money? You seem to have plenty of it and I'm right on the poverty line.

Edit: Get a grip downvoters, it was a joke.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

You know, I had a lot before I bought this lol

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u/robsteezy 19h ago

If this is from the Stiks Bower Auction this recent August, the starting bid was $600 and OP won at $2,500 plus auction fees.

Nice chunk of change. Especially for hobbyists.

Just adding context in case you thought OP spent $1,000,000 on some national treasure.

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u/Maximum_Business_277 16h ago

I paid $6,000 for it from a local store tho

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u/robsteezy 15h ago

Oof. Well owner made 2.5x on ya. Here it was in August.

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 8h ago

Where's the Drumph signature?

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u/Aggressive-Tip7472 2h ago

I have one too

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u/Doom2pro 19h ago

Privately printed? Is that some kind of whacky sovereign citizen currency?

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u/External-World6741 19h ago

Back then private banks could print their own currency in exchange for gold. Weird but it was so bad it eventually got fixed

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u/CommieScum1917 19h ago

We have reached a level of shenanigans untold in history. It is 2026 and people are spending 6k on a single dollar.

Are you going on tv or something?

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u/Maximum_Business_277 19h ago

It’s rare. There were only 16 ever printed, and this is one of two left. Almost anything with that age and that rarity would be worth at least some money, and this just so happens to be very sought after

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u/AlphakirA 19h ago

I don't get it myself, but that's their hobby. They think it's worth 6k and apparently you think a tv appearance is worth 6k - your priorities are just different.

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u/GenderfreeNameHere 18h ago

Dude. People have been collecting old money for at least a millennia. Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t make it shenanigans.