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The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926.
For these bills, the serial number uniquely identified the bill, except for some issues that exceeded one million bills. In that case, the sequence of serial numbers was restarted, and an extra overprint of 'Series 1' was added to the bill. When one million bills in 'Series 1' were printed, 'Series 2' was used, and so on. 'Series 187' is the ...
When the redesigned $100 bill was released in October 2013, Dustin Johnston, director of Heritage Auctions in Dallas, told The Boston Globe the very first bill (serial number 00000001) could be ...
Those are serial numbers, and some are more rare than others. If you happen to have paper money with a unique or interesting serial number, it may be worth much more than face value. In fact ...
Bills With Serial Number Oddities. A $20 bill sold for nearly $400,000 at an auction in 2021, because it had a serial number printed on top and a Del Monte fruit sticker. This $20 bill is even ...
The $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations were last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, making the $100 bill the largest denomination banknote in circulation. A $1 note was added in 1963 to replace the $1 Silver Certificate after that type of currency had been discontinued. Since United States Notes were discontinued in 1971 ...
“We’ve paid thousands of dollars for a 1953 $10 bill with a rare serial number, and a few bucks for an old $10 bill from the 1800s,” wrote the pros at OldMoneyPrices.com on their website ...
The entire collection was bought by Jay Parrino in 1999 for an amount under 10 million dollars. Since then, individual bills from the collection have been sold for up to $188,000 per bill. Before dismantling, the positions and serial numbers of each bill were recorded so that buyers could know where their bill was located in the display. [13]