1986 $2 Thiessen Crow bundles

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I've inherited a number of bundles of 100 notes each, 1986 $2 bills, all Thiessen Crow. Prefixes include BRA, EGJ, EGK, EGM. Most bundles appear to contain consecutive notes, however at least two have mixed prefixes within them. Most bundles are unblemished notes, however there are a few for which the top couple of notes have some creasing, based on how they were stored.

I've not gone through the notes in detail as I don't want to risk any further blemishes, but my quick scan of serial numbers suggest no radars, solids, or other interesting numbers which some collectors value.

Three bundles are still in bank wrap, the rest are open. Many are sequential however some are mixed, particularly some of the EGJ/EGK/EGM which seem to span across a few bundles. I also note a couple of bundles are obviously notes short given the ranges don't quite work, so perhaps they took a couple off the top at some point for some reason.

BRA 4699200-249, 450-497
EGM 8193501-600, 601-700, 701-800
EGN 0565550-599
EGK 1594700-750, 950-999 (missing 551, the radar of course)
EGR 2978401-450

Then the mixed items - include EGJ69588##, EGM45226##, EGK08697## as examples, but there are others and I don't want to accidentally damage a note by flipping through them.

I'll keep a few as souvenirs but ultimately don't need ~10 bundles of these. What is a reasonable value to expect for what I assume to be unextraordinary but interesting notes?

All of those are common, full-run prefixes (10 million notes printed each prefix) except EGR, which was a changeover prefix; the first 2 million were Thiessen-Crow, and the last 8 million were Bonin-Thiessen, making your EGRs slightly more desirable and valuable to collectors.

As for value, the common prefix notes in Unc condition are listed as $4 each, and the EGR notes are listed at $12. Obviously notes with creases would go down in both grade and value. If you had them professionally graded and the condition was even better than Unc, they could possibly go up by a few dollars. Special serial numbers would of course fetch a premium, but it sounds like you've already looked for those.

The BRA prefix was printed by BABNC, and the rest were printed by CBNC. The BABNC notes sometimes used a combination of small and large "B"s, which are of interest to collectors who are researching and mapping-out prefix ranges of such prefixes. We have some members who will likely chime in if BRA is one such prefix of interest.