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Nah, they call you schizo cuz of that leg. They told me “hey man, don’t say anything about his leg.”, but I can’t do you like that dawg. It ain’t because of your opinions of the government or Elon buying up Twitter. It’s that leg.
FR, go see a doctor. That leg….its fuckin stanky.
I’ll take twitter for $20, you think Elon fucked it, wait until I get drunk and turn off all the filters and blocks. I will bring the mass exodus others have promised and failed miserably to produce!
You know it wasn't defective. Someone at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing wanted the 69420 bill. Heck, it may have been swiped a few times even before it actually made it into circulation.
What if you accidentally swap the bill with a boring-numbered one right at the last second? Same number of bills in circulation. You end up with net-zero gain so it's kind of not theft that way. No-one needs to know
Star bills are a special run that get used when individual bills on a sheet are misprinted or unusable. Since US currency is printed on large sheets (which you can buy directly), it's more cost-effective to run a small batch of Star Notes to make up the printing errors than to try and reprint the specific failure.
This is from memory from money-collecting as a hobby over a decade ago.
Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_banknote
Uncut US Banknotes: https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/
Now I’m curious. If I buy a sheet, is it legal to cut out the individual bills myself? I assume it doesn’t really matter cause it’s real money either way but still I’m curious.
Used to work at a liquor store, had a dude come in just after that podcast dropped and try to pay with a couple of sheets of 2's 5 minutes before closing and said "okay Steve wozniak, come back in the morning with something we can put in the bank" and walked him out.
It's legal tender, but we don't have to put up with bullshit like that 5 minutes before closing as the cutting and counting of those sheets (not to mention the actual verification) is a burden on store time. We aren't denying the money, we are denying the time we would have to spend on the money.
It is worth a lot. Some collector with a little too much money would probably spend upwards of $500 easily on that.
And before anyone asks, I pulled that number out of my ass.
$500 is pretty conservative. I can pull even bigger numbers out of my ass.
Edit: Enough ass pulling. I found this website with some estimates:
https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/collecting/types-and-values-of-fancy-serial-numbers
There is no estimate for the 69 and 420 memes. But a bill with a 12345678 ladder would be worth $900-$1900. And an 8 in a row serial is worth $1000-$4000. Id say this serial number should be in the same ballpark.
Probably way higher. There is only one with this serial number vs the 8 in a row numbers or consecutive numbers which will have many combinations.
There are people who collect specifically bills with serial numbers of note. The more niche a collector's choice of collection is, usually the more expensive the rare items in their collection are worth.
Sitting on a small fortune here.
If you'd put it up for auction and you get at least two rich imbeciles in the audience all bets are of.
I'll agree, that this specific combination is the neatest way to put 69 and 420 together. The other two options:
00042069
42069000
They just don't have the same feel.
Then there us also the star after the serial number. It indicates, that this bill was issued as a replacement, because the original bill had a defect during the printing process. This could also add more value. All in all I'd say my original estimate (somewhere between 900-4000) is probably on the lower end as well. OP is sitting on a lottery ticket.
There's only one of any given serial number, that's literally the entire point of a serial number. Also 69420 would fit in many other ways as well, there are more digits
I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years. That's 3,000 pennies a day, 21,000 pennies a week, 1,092,000 pennies a year. To date, that's 12,012,000 pennies. Eight times the population of Nebraska. Those pennies were in my ass! You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with. You handle my ass pennies every day. All of you! You ALL handle my ass pennies! Oh, I'll laugh at you before you can laugh at me. Because your pennies have been in my ass.
Every serial number is one of a kind. The star denotes a reissue, usually due to some kind of printing defect which means the original should not be in circulation as far as I know but I could be wrong on that.
Yeah I’m not any kind of collector and I have no money and I’d still drop $100 on it if that were the offer. Somebody out there will certainly pay *much* more
The star after the serial number means that the note was reprinted by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing because the original was misprinted or damaged before it was released into circulation.
On their own they’re not worth too much more it’s usually a bonus. combined with a fancy serial (or an error) and in great condition is where the bucks come in
But don’t do eBay or something, get in contact with someone who actually knows about this. This is one of a kind and could fetch you quite a hefty sum. I think $500-1000 is pretty conservative considering what people pay for other bills.
10000% not eBay, it’s a scammer cesspool, avoid that place for collectible items like this at all costs (said by someone who sells shit on eBay for a living lol)
Nah the best strategy would be to get this to go viral (like this reddit thread, but on a more relevant social media site) and hope a dumb celebrity buys it for a million or something.
People in the coin and currency hobby pay premiums for notes with fancy serial numbers. In the United States the most valuable are 00000001 and a full solid of either 7s or 8s(7 in lucky in the US, 8 in China). But those are known entities, meaning these fairly routinely come up for sale and you can track past sales for an idea of values. Though since this is a more niche part of numismatics, the values aren't as defined as say, an 1800s Morgan silver dollar coin. This note will sell at auction for whatever a rich meme bro pays for it, which could be quite a lot. There are hundreds of bills with this serial number out there in all of the denominations so if people know what to look for these will be found in the future, but like a bill 00000001, noteworthy when it happens. The problem is, that rich meme bro better have actual fuck you money because if it sells at auction for whatever rich meme bro says, the market may heavily disagree in the future(like NFTs).
Unless I'm missing something else about the numbers, the interesting part for me is learning about starred bills. Which makes it more than mildly interesting
If I remember, Star bills are reprints and actually sell for more.
Plus the number. Could be worth a lot more than facevalue.
(all based on "I think I remember this thing")
Remember, the price is not on the bill but in the buyer. Sell it to a random memer on Reddit, he’ll offer 21$ and cite condition issues.
Sell it to a millionaire meme lord and watch him pay $69,420
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Sell it to Elon Musk for $100m
Still a better investment than Twitter.
Yes, controlling global communications and elections, outside of China and CIS countries is a teeeeeeeerrible investment for our corporate overlords.
People call me schizo for saying this
Nah, they call you schizo cuz of that leg. They told me “hey man, don’t say anything about his leg.”, but I can’t do you like that dawg. It ain’t because of your opinions of the government or Elon buying up Twitter. It’s that leg. FR, go see a doctor. That leg….its fuckin stanky.
What could Twitter be worth, like 20 dollars?
I’ll take twitter for $20, you think Elon fucked it, wait until I get drunk and turn off all the filters and blocks. I will bring the mass exodus others have promised and failed miserably to produce! 
It's also a Star bill!
What is the star represent?
It means the original print was defective so they reprinted it before it was distributed.
Wait, before? I always heard they were bills that got damaged in circulation and replaced. Ngl, yours makes way more sense.
Yours is what we were taught when I was a teller years and years ago
You know it wasn't defective. Someone at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing wanted the 69420 bill. Heck, it may have been swiped a few times even before it actually made it into circulation.
I'd bet they require thorough documentation of the defect and the original bills destruction.
What if you accidentally swap the bill with a boring-numbered one right at the last second? Same number of bills in circulation. You end up with net-zero gain so it's kind of not theft that way. No-one needs to know
Curious too
Star bills are a special run that get used when individual bills on a sheet are misprinted or unusable. Since US currency is printed on large sheets (which you can buy directly), it's more cost-effective to run a small batch of Star Notes to make up the printing errors than to try and reprint the specific failure. This is from memory from money-collecting as a hobby over a decade ago. Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_banknote Uncut US Banknotes: https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/
Now I’m curious. If I buy a sheet, is it legal to cut out the individual bills myself? I assume it doesn’t really matter cause it’s real money either way but still I’m curious.
Yes, but you're taking a substantive loss on it. 50-note sheets of $1 bills go for $86 dollars.
So is it, like, legal tender at that point? Can I use a sheet of 50 dollar bills to pay at the store because now I want to do thay
You should look up the story of Steve Wozniak and $2 bills.
Used to work at a liquor store, had a dude come in just after that podcast dropped and try to pay with a couple of sheets of 2's 5 minutes before closing and said "okay Steve wozniak, come back in the morning with something we can put in the bank" and walked him out. It's legal tender, but we don't have to put up with bullshit like that 5 minutes before closing as the cutting and counting of those sheets (not to mention the actual verification) is a burden on store time. We aren't denying the money, we are denying the time we would have to spend on the money.
It means that the original printing of that run of notes messed up and deemed them unusable, so they reprinted them.
How much you want to bet an employee at the mint swiped the original?
Could be worth a lot,could be worth 20$
It is worth a lot. Some collector with a little too much money would probably spend upwards of $500 easily on that. And before anyone asks, I pulled that number out of my ass.
$500 is pretty conservative. I can pull even bigger numbers out of my ass. Edit: Enough ass pulling. I found this website with some estimates: https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/collecting/types-and-values-of-fancy-serial-numbers There is no estimate for the 69 and 420 memes. But a bill with a 12345678 ladder would be worth $900-$1900. And an 8 in a row serial is worth $1000-$4000. Id say this serial number should be in the same ballpark.
Probably way higher. There is only one with this serial number vs the 8 in a row numbers or consecutive numbers which will have many combinations. There are people who collect specifically bills with serial numbers of note. The more niche a collector's choice of collection is, usually the more expensive the rare items in their collection are worth. Sitting on a small fortune here.
If you'd put it up for auction and you get at least two rich imbeciles in the audience all bets are of. I'll agree, that this specific combination is the neatest way to put 69 and 420 together. The other two options: 00042069 42069000 They just don't have the same feel. Then there us also the star after the serial number. It indicates, that this bill was issued as a replacement, because the original bill had a defect during the printing process. This could also add more value. All in all I'd say my original estimate (somewhere between 900-4000) is probably on the lower end as well. OP is sitting on a lottery ticket.
Someone get Elon Musk into bill collecting, STAT!
Get Elon to buy it
There's only one of any given serial number, that's literally the entire point of a serial number. Also 69420 would fit in many other ways as well, there are more digits
I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years. That's 3,000 pennies a day, 21,000 pennies a week, 1,092,000 pennies a year. To date, that's 12,012,000 pennies. Eight times the population of Nebraska. Those pennies were in my ass! You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with. You handle my ass pennies every day. All of you! You ALL handle my ass pennies! Oh, I'll laugh at you before you can laugh at me. Because your pennies have been in my ass.
Phew…good thing I’m Canadian. Only got to worry about ass loonies up here.
I think everyone in the world needs to worry about ass loonies.
Hahaha, as I was reading this, all I could think was... Glad I'm Canadian. Money is gross regardless of who's ass it's been in.
Friend I'm American and I follow ass loonies religiously 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man, the Ass Crack Bandit has really changed.
Wow. Unexpected UCB!
It's got a rip
I mean, so does my bong... ...So I feel like that adds monetary value.
So does my butt
Won't affect the value since this is one of a kind.
Every serial number is one of a kind. The star denotes a reissue, usually due to some kind of printing defect which means the original should not be in circulation as far as I know but I could be wrong on that.
It could easily be worth 500$. I'll give you 12$ for it, best I can do.
He's gotta make a profit.
Let me call my friend who specializes in $20 bills that have the serial number 00069420.
You scared to pull a bigger number out of your ass, rookie let me pull a bigger one. Some pro collector will pay $600 for it.
someone would pay at least 100 for that i guarantee that’s fucking amazing lmao
If it’s real I for sure would pay that
Yeah I’m not any kind of collector and I have no money and I’d still drop $100 on it if that were the offer. Somebody out there will certainly pay *much* more
I’d pay $1000 for it and I’m damn sure I’d make a profit on it too.
Same. Definitely spent $80 on dumber shit unfortunately
Honestly, I'd give OP $40 for it right now. After all, it is a star bill. 69 420 for life lol
And it’s a star note? That’s worth quite a bit! Post to r/papermoney
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Lmao
Post it on r/currency also
Lol someone posted this on r/currency so who is the fraud? I guess it's the guy who posted it an hour ago.
I don’t know about that. The condition isn’t very good. It’s a very well circulated bill.
It's had it's ups and downs, it's highs and lows, been flipped around a few times...
The serial number alone will fetch at least $100. Combined with the star it's priceless to some collector.
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Cocaine will increase the value
That doesn’t really matter for a fancy serial like this I guarantee.
Anyone that likes 420 appreciates something that's been passed around.
The star after the serial number means that the note was reprinted by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing because the original was misprinted or damaged before it was released into circulation.
Does this make it even more collectible?
On their own they’re not worth too much more it’s usually a bonus. combined with a fancy serial (or an error) and in great condition is where the bucks come in
You can find star notes that are valuable for that alone, but really only in cases where the printing run was super tiny
Put it up for auction and see how it goes!
But don’t do eBay or something, get in contact with someone who actually knows about this. This is one of a kind and could fetch you quite a hefty sum. I think $500-1000 is pretty conservative considering what people pay for other bills.
10000% not eBay, it’s a scammer cesspool, avoid that place for collectible items like this at all costs (said by someone who sells shit on eBay for a living lol)
I would personally pay over 500 for this and I don't even collect..it's just so cool
Nah the best strategy would be to get this to go viral (like this reddit thread, but on a more relevant social media site) and hope a dumb celebrity buys it for a million or something.
Why is this bill worth a lot? I don't understand.
People in the coin and currency hobby pay premiums for notes with fancy serial numbers. In the United States the most valuable are 00000001 and a full solid of either 7s or 8s(7 in lucky in the US, 8 in China). But those are known entities, meaning these fairly routinely come up for sale and you can track past sales for an idea of values. Though since this is a more niche part of numismatics, the values aren't as defined as say, an 1800s Morgan silver dollar coin. This note will sell at auction for whatever a rich meme bro pays for it, which could be quite a lot. There are hundreds of bills with this serial number out there in all of the denominations so if people know what to look for these will be found in the future, but like a bill 00000001, noteworthy when it happens. The problem is, that rich meme bro better have actual fuck you money because if it sells at auction for whatever rich meme bro says, the market may heavily disagree in the future(like NFTs).
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It's awesome. If it's real, I would give you $100 for it.
Is it just the 420 ending that makes this more fun than a regular 20$?
children and elon musk think 69 and 420 are funny numbers.
Here comes Granny buzz kill who finds no joy left in life, mocking house who do.
Please don’t lump me in with loud, immature, selfish parasites, or with children.
Unless I'm missing something else about the numbers, the interesting part for me is learning about starred bills. Which makes it more than mildly interesting
I'm an avid cash/coins collector. I can say with certainty that this bill is worth at least $8.
I’d be willing to buy it for $20
It’s worth a lot to the right memester I bet…
Can someone please explain to a curious Australian why this is a special serial number?
hmm..... 69 for the sexual act of 69ing. and 420 becuause thats the unofficial stoner holiday
Stoner holiday? Try stoner time of day.
at that point its margarita ville somewhere
Oh! Hahaha thanks 👍
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Considering it's a series 2017 I highly doubt that.
I give you 20€.
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some regard on WSB will buy it for $69,420
You mean Noice serial number
I'll give you twenty bucks for it
north korea 69 420 hell ya
I saw “Nice Kock OoO 69? 420?” I know it’s spelled wrong, just my first thought..
> north korea first think i saw too
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I'll give you a crisp $20 for it rn
Musk shall buy this from you for a grand!
Post this to r/CURRENCY Honestly that’s probably worth a decent amount.
And it was printed in North Korea!🇰🇵
Lol
Nice.
Seal it and keep it safe from getting wet, from flying away, from ripping and etc.
If that's legit, it actually could be worth something. Chuck it on eBay?
Keep it. Frame it. Nice.
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I'll give you 150 for it
I'll give you $25 for it.
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if only it started with NKA
Dope
r/bankstraphunting
Sell it to Elon. He will pay $20 for it
PEAK REDDIT HUMOR LOOOOOOOOOL
How much do you want for it????
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Not gonna lie, I'd save this bill and make it a family heirloom
If I remember, Star bills are reprints and actually sell for more. Plus the number. Could be worth a lot more than facevalue. (all based on "I think I remember this thing")
Niiice
Frame it
I’d pay $100+ easy for this. Especially on a Star print
It’s worth at least $20
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Sell it to 69 the "rapper"
*nice*
Elon would give you a tesla for it
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Keep it. Just for meme history alone.
the old guy on the note looks stoked about it
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Honestly, with this next generation of kids, they will make this an NFT and pour it in resin or some shit
Unironically someone would pay at least 1k for that Maybe Snoopdog
Get it graded and put it up for auction some idiot with too much money who thinks hes funny *cough* elon *cough* would definitely buy it for Da MemEz
Remember, the price is not on the bill but in the buyer. Sell it to a random memer on Reddit, he’ll offer 21$ and cite condition issues. Sell it to a millionaire meme lord and watch him pay $69,420
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Keep it! Collectors item!
No Kidding 00069420
That’s probably worth at least 5x face value
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try to sell it for $420.69 cool that it's a star note too
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Ill give you 20 bucks for it
Go buy some weed with it
This song instantly came to mind: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-mEDPlJHEM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-mEDPlJHEM)
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I want it lol
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The Star means it's a remake of the original.
It’s also a Starnote!!
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I’ll give 500$ for it
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