![]() Among others, it was used in promotions in cereal boxes, by check printers, by the Longines Symphonette Society, and for sale with similar fakes in packs by souvenir sellers. The fake, with its tell-tale crisp, fake parchment paper, was produced in enormous quantities in the 1960s, well before the Hobby Protection Act of 1974 would have required the word COPY to be printed on it. What’s it worth?” When we would shock the caller with the response, “It’s serial number is 8894, isn’t it, and if so, it’s worthless.” The disappointment, and sometimes even anger, was palpable. ![]() In the days before the internet supplanted dealers as the public’s go-to source for valuations, it was rare for a week to go by without at least one phone call that started, “I have a $1,000 bill from 1840. The value of a note numbered 8894 is nothing, because that is the serial number of one of the most common fakes in history. The note was issued by the Philadelphia branch of the bank. It was in Paper Money Guaranty Choice Uncirculated 63 condition. That was the price paid by the winning bidder in a Stack’s Bowers Galleries Collectors Choice Online auction on July 29 for a Bank of the United States $1,000 note dated Dec. In this case, the difference is between “8893” and “8894,” and that difference is $1,920. ![]() Sometimes a single digit in a serial number can make a difference of thousands of dollars, and not because it is fancy in any way, shape, or form.
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