Centennial Collection

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Very Nice!

Part II (BABN):

Still looking to replace J/P, K/P and M/P with solids.  Also would be nice to find something more special for the replacements.

amazing collection

Wow!!!

It takes deep pockets to assemble an amazing set like these Centennail notes.  Perhaps, more importantly, it takes patience and determination to do this.  Time is an important factor as well.

JBN

None of these were terribly expensive but it did take some patience as I got most of them one at a time over a 6-7 year period.  I did buy a full 1-9 set all at once that helped fill some of the remaining holes.  I might have overpaid for a few notes as I didn't want to let them slip by but not by a crazy amount.  I'm not even sure what the going rate for '67 solids is as they tend to go all over the place but they do seem to get a little bit more action than plain '54 $1s.

Wow those are truly amazing, what a set on such a great note. Congrats

Still looking to replace J/P, K/P and M/P with solids.  Also would be nice to find something more special for the replacements.

Yes yes keep upgrading your set. Don’t stop until you have:
The Ultimate 1967 Centennial Prefix and Serial Number Collection of All Time!

I think for that you’re going to need to find the solid serial numbers 1111111 & 5555555.

You already started the millions, you have to finish them up or at least find the 1,000,000.

You already have a number 1 but you need the opposite too, you need a 10,000,000.

Maybe an ascending ladder 1234567.

Maybe a few nice radars for replacements upgrades.
 
If you like specimens then there are two of those.

Don’t forget the double date 1867 1967 serial number. A simple one but your ultimate set isn’t complete without it.



 
You probably have the best 1967 set there is but it’s fun to think about what the ultimate set of all time might be.

I have the solid 1s and 5s but I was going for one of each prefix rather than one of each digit.  If I could get those for the missing prefixes that wouldn't be bad, killing two birds with one stone.

I also do love 1234567s but I've never found one on a centennial.

I've never seen a 10M either.  I would love to see proof that one actually exists.  The Charlton lists a population of 1 but the CPMS registry doesn't show it so I'm not sure where that information comes from.  The latest known 10M prefixes (V/M and A/O) came quite a while before the 1967 series.  Also, all 10M notes I've seen, regardless of denomination had the letterpress signatures which were discontinued prior to the 1967 series.  In fact, the last 10M notes from all denominations that I know of seem to occur very close to the last letterpress signature notes.

An interesting tangent to this tangent is that there is a $5 note K/S 10,000,000 featuring the letterpress signature which occurred after a bunch of K/S notes which had litho signatures.  The very next note L/S 0000001 goes back to the litho signature, and I have yet to spot any more letterpress notes after this point.  If this is correct, it's possible that K/S 10,000,000 is both the very last $5 10M note and the very last note printed with a letterpress signature.  I get a strong hunch that the process of producing 10M notes was somehow related to the application of the signatures.  This is all pure speculation based on the very impartial information at my disposal though and would be totally invalidated by the discovery of a 1967 note with 10M serial.

The millions are my least favorite of all of those but they're doing work as fillers in the meantime.  I do have some 1M and a few others though.

These are amazing!

Thanks for sharing!