Sad story - 10$ 1971

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Hello to everyone. Im a big collector of Paper money and im only 15  
Most find that wierd but anyways onto this story. About  Summer 2004, I was at a pizza store, And i got an almost Unc. ten dollar bill from 1971. I was amazed. The sad part is, My mom needed the money and she spent it on something at a store later  
The worst part is that she ended up returning what she bought, So it was wasted  

That is sad.  Some people just don't get it.  

Moms are known for doing things like that...

My mom threw away all my hockey cards from the late 60's and early 70's about two weeks before I went back home looking for them. This was during the big hockey card craze that took hold a few short years ago.

I can only imagine the value that went to the trash. I was an advide collector of cards as a kid.

Mothers...they call our collectibles junk, but they can have attics full of Barbie dolls and cabinets full of Royal Doulton and crystal figurines.

I had lots of cool stuff too. I had  a lot of hockey cards from the early 1960s and early to mid 70s. I got the 60s cards from trading their fathers cards to get the current 1970s cards. I also had multiple complete sets of Wacky Packages cards, T.V. show cards from the 1970s, most mint condition. Had tons of comics, Mad magazines all from the 1960s to 1970s, Star Wars stuff, 2 almost mint copies of the Globe from July 1, 1867.

My brother saved a whole bunch of Conan comics, even had the first issue number 1, but my mom gave those away and chucked out all my cards/comics mentioned above when I went away to school. Man was I pissed. I bet most of that stuff would be worth 100s if not 1000s of dollars now because most of it was in excellent condition.

Stories of Mom and Dad...... (sigh)

I recall, when I was about 10 or so, when grandma passed away, we found she had a large stash of Hong Kong $500 notes from 1935, all in AUNC condition, (light folding, since they were so huge). Unfortunely, when I was a kid, about $10,000 would buy a car. My parents took the stack of 50 consecutive notes to the bank............

Today, they are worth upwards of HK$10000 each.  

I come across older notes a lot, but I'll spend them if they are in horrible condition. The only time I'll keep them, if they are a hard to find or rare note. But if I come across a note that is in EF or better condition, I will keep them. But yeah, a lot of times I see fantastic notes at Scotia, but I can't have them now because they have to send them in. That was the bank I found the two EET Lawson/Bauey notes in a stack of 1971 $10s. But there are lots of excellent notes just floating around in circulation or deposited at the bank. And yeah, most will get sent in to be destroyed. What a shame.

Any 1971 $10 bill, crisp or ratty, would have been good.  The first chance I see a 1971 $10, I usually try to swap with the cashier.  Nowadays, all the $10 bills I see in my change are the upgraded Journey's.  I wish I could get a 1971 (or even a Birds) $10 bill, but I can't anymore, as all the older $10 bills will be out of circulation faster than you can say "supercalifragilisticexpialodocious"!

- Cathy -

A few summers back, I was out shopping and got a crisp 1971 $10 in change.  So these lucky finds do happen.  I am sure you'll be reunited with one soon enough, Sonicwolf.

Similar to the 1979 $20 Crow-Bouey 50** issue in AU i got in change about a year ago.