Paper Money Collecting & Investing: A Primer on US Large Sized Notes - Numismatics Market Analysis 

This was far more interesting than expected.

I recently got into collecting US coins and currency and came across your video after purchasing my first legal tender note. Let me just say, this was a phenomenal crash course in the basics, and I am astounded by your ability to explain things in a concise and articulate manner. You're an impressive guy with an equally impressive collection. I will add that I didn't get into numismatics to invest but for the history, and I personally don't consider coins and currency to be investments but more so a hobby that happens to hold or appreciate in value. Having said that, I very much appreciate you putting out this content. You are a true asset to the numismatics community.

Great content, this is a intimidating hobby but you did a great job helping a newbie like myself learn where and how to start

Just the kind of informative in depth info on collecting us paper currency that I was looking for. Subscribing this second.

What a incredible set of large sized notes! I was drooling over those gradings. That has to be over 20K of notes. Great video!!

Dear Shawn: Thank you for sharing. I watch your channel because I love your insight and education on investing. I didn't know I would I think vintage paper notes would be so cool. When I graduate uni, have a job, and am financially established I will definitely be looking into paper currency. this is cool

I love seeing the items you collect. I’ve collected coins for 10 years and have went from cheaper basic coins under $10 to better collector coins $100-$500 range. I hope to be able to dip my toe into the “investment grade category once the kids are grown and out of the house.

Wow. What a great crash course in currency collecting! I am just starting out with small silver certificates after collecting coins for a long time. Your way of explaining was great. I can't wait til i know more and can collect some of the better bills.

Those are legit. Good share. Love old currency and you have a great eye!

Just started with currency in the last 2 years. Been a coin collector for 50+ years. I enjoy your channel and thanks for the advice!! 👍

I've collected U.S. Paper Currency for 11 years because of the artwork, but recently, I've been considering the investment route after seeing my best note increase in value quicker than expected. Currently, I own 32 Rainbow notes in a variety of grades. I call that hoard my "Nest Egg." It'll be interesting to see where the Rainbow series will be in 10 years.

Excellent video!

Able to make a comment. I love this video! My favorite is same as yours, the $1 1896 Educational note. The artwork on it is stunning. The artwork on all of these notes is very stunning to look at. I dont think I will ever get into collecting these because of the high cost, but I always stop and look whenever I am at a convention. Even just to hold one in your hands is a memorable experience.

Thanks for such an informative video absolutely gorgeous notes!

Great episode, didn’t know anything about this collectible market and learned quite a bit.

Great video! Some awesome notes there. I think what you've neglected to mention is that investing in and collecting large size notes can be two very different things. I collect art and I collect large banknotes. I "collect" them because they bring me pleasure, not necessarily because I want to sell them for a profit. That being said I do believe there is still a market for ungraded large size notes as evidenced simply by the crazy bidding that might occur on an 1899 $2 Silver Certificate "mini porthole". For example, I picked one up in VF-XF condition not graded for under $500 and I'm thrilled to own it. I think what I'm trying to say is that people should collect what they enjoy owning and most importantly what they can afford. I really enjoy my large bill collection and will continue to collect with emphasis on the fact that the notes tell a wonderful story and bring me great satisfaction. Once again, excellent video, great content, I look forward to watching more of your videos! Be well, Mark in Portland, Oregon

Excellent I learned so much by this video

awesome input!

Great video, excellent info. I've subscribed, looking forward to the rest of your videos. Thank you.

Well versed and covered. Really exceptional examples. Wish you would show the entire collection, for full disclosure. 😃

Nice notes. Got a blacj eagle, a chief & a buff & battleeship.

Very educational, thank you kind sir!

Thank you for making this video.

Thank you for such an informative video! GREAT video!

I am a Taiwanese currency collector, and what I want to say is that your video is very easy for someone who doesn't speak English very well to understand, nice work, keep going, supprt.

Absolutely excellent video, can't believe you don't have 10 fold the views on it already!

You are awesome, love your enthusiasm, thank you, I learned a lot

Hi Sean, Wow this video would have to be the best educational banknote video on youtube, I am a collector for 10 years, I also submit my best notes to PMG, everything you said in your video is so true, and well presented. I think you under estimated the value of the graded notes you were showing, also another thing to consider, because of technology and now Covid, the use of paper money is diminishing, therefore now and in the next decade is the time to collect and invest in paper money, future generations will look at paper money as antiques, making them more scarce and collectable. Sean, great video, I cant wait 6 months for world currency ! Please do more videos on paper currency, its a real growing hobby, I look on ebay almost everyday and notice prices going up, especially French colonial and QE2 British Colonial Currency, and you are correct about grading, as a collector PMG64 really is like Par in golf, everyone wants a birdie, the best collectors always strive to collect better than 64, and will pay more to get it. We really need more good content on youtube for banknote collecting, your vid was excellent, well done, Regards David

Very much looking forward to your video on Continental Currency 🇺🇸

God, I crave more of your content.❤️

Great Video. I can confirm your statements from the 13th minute onwards, after my coin collection is relatively large and I have sent in several hundred coins to NGC, I now have my eye on PMG, whose services I am allowed to use with my NGC subscribtion and I am slowly working my way through here. I am a German collector, but will probably also buy US banknotes.

Awesome video

This video is great.

Wow you have an amazing collection. I've been into paper currency for the last 4-5 years and have a few PMG notes like a 1934 $500 bill graded 55. 1902 $5 Plain Back national Bank note that is Serial #2 in it's series grade 63 and a 1776 New Jersey Colonial note graded 64 with a comment of Good Embossing.

Thank you for the knowledge.I just got my first piece of graded currency. Not a high grade but still a cool note.the battle ship 2😎 IAM now going after my first graded gold certificate.

Great video

Need more "note" content, bring them on. I like investing in these notes more than precious metals.

Great video! I learned a lot from this, thanks :)

I'm currently 16 living in new jersey, minimum wage here is actually pretty high so I plan on collecting a lot of rare U.S currency. I've always been interested in money since I was young and can't wait to get started collecting. I think it is pretty fitting since I will be having a finance career. It would be funny telling people that my only interests involve money in one way or another. Since I would be holding the currency for a very very long time, probably never selling it would be nice to leave it to my future children.

indeed, the collectable coin and currency market is a long hold market :) great video

Man, wallets must have been huge to carry those around...😆

Thank you.

i have a pmg 25 $5 educational note. It's a beauty. Always wanted a technicolor though

Wow, I learned a lot thank you! I will not get anything less than 64 EPQ and PMG is what I'm going for. I just got into this. I have a 64 $2 Silver, now I wish it was a 66 EPQ.

I must be the worst collector/investor because I prefer a worn, nicely aged bill over a pristine one. All those “imperfections” are markers of the bill’s history and its passage through time. I find it fascinating to look at a bill and imagine how many times it changed hands with exact evidence of how it was folded and shoved into a wallet, saddlebag or coin pouch or to look at an oil stain and imagine some event that occurred a hundred years ago that caused it to be there. All I can imagine with a mint-condition bill is it running off the press and being locked in a safe until it’s discovered by some future generation that values the fact that it was never used.

Coin collecting = graceful aging

I’ve been collecting coins, paper money, bullion and Disney dollars since I was 15. Years later I’m 20 and I still collect this stuff and get excited like a kid getting excited over McDonald’s. Those are beautiful bills. I plan on getting my first PMG graded currency this week. I might go with a $2 star note or a Disney dollar. How do I store these? I don’t have a safe but I store my other stuff in albums and in NGC boxes.

Hey Shawn, we need more content on International paper money investment, it’s a growing market, it’s huge, please tell your viewers how best to invest in this market !

Thanks for the useful video I have been trying to find out what will lose the ppq on a note and what they will forgive its hard to find that info in Australia .

Great vid

Great upload i never new grading bank notes was a thing I've been collecting old uk and Irish bank notes such as fenian bonds for years both AUNC and EF would it be worth grading uk notes or is it more common across the pond.

Excellent vid bro.You have an amazing collection of some of the most iconic large size notes ever produced. Do you have the Chief and Porthole?The book,Paper Money of the United States by Arthur and Ira Friedberg is an excellent source as well.Paper money grading actually started with CGA(currency grading and authentication) in 1998.There is also Legacy Grading, which was started by Jason Bradford,who left PCGS a few years ago

Ive got some cool uncirculated new $100 blue bills from when I worked at the bank an they first came out that are special numbers Ive been wanting to get graded.

The only issue is if we're using money in an entirely digital form. Will future generations covet to the same degree they do now?

Lol I’ve been doing coin collecting for awhile and I started watching videos abd reading books because I’m moving into paper currency because honestly it’s cool.

Love your shirt

I LOVE paper currency.

Nice! Very educational. Are ungraded bank notes something to avoid? Have you had bank notes graded?

It's absolutely insane to think that your set of rare notes that are over 100 years old are worth less than a rare card from a children's game printed on cheap cardboard 20 years ago

Can you make one for those are just getting started and low income? Which one should start of getting?

Large size notes were printed all the way up to 1929. The series year printed on the note was kept until the note design was changed which could be many years. Large size Federal Reserve notes were first printed in 1914 and that series date was kept until 1929.

Very informative.. How much do you think those graded paper currency’s valued today at roughly $3,000 to $4,000 shown in this video would be worth in 10 years by 2030..?

Learning so much from you, greatly appreciated! Did you ever make that video on continental currency? I know you have an endless slate to get done 😂 have a great night my friend

Do you think these currency sleeves/cases prevent the currency from breathing, possibly hurting the fabric in the long run?

Would you be interested in or have a video in the works about coin collecting and knowing what coins are the best to get graded? my grandfather has a crazy awesome coin collection that I’m interested in getting graded for him. Thanks for your time. ❤️

very nice... where do you make your note buys from???

I have some of these notes but they are in a lower grade and not graded but I still like to collect them.

The secret to making money is don't buy at retail prices.

The only two valuable Bank notes I have are series 1917 two dollar bills worth $18,500 and just looks brand new and I have two of them

hi, what is the reason why there are 1988 and 1988a dollars? Thank you

I love money currency my favorite is the $5 educational note but it's so expensive to own =( I stick to collecting $2 dollar star notes. I noticed your $5 dollar 1869 rainbow note has a star on it, is that an error ? or they all come with that serial number. Nice collection super jealous right now lol,

Shawn, please do small size notes and colonials for old Poindexter who doesn't have a huge budget to devote to this area.

wow they are some dream pieces you have there

How about a intro to STAR NOTES, not very common for the large notes but a circulated can be worth a lot of coinage. Like the video

I feel poor and inadequate after looking at your collection when comparing it to my paltry collection. Especially when you said the 1899 $1 Black Eagle is more or less Bargain Bin Material. I feel like I need to take out a second mortgage in order to get something that is investment grade. Someday I might be able put together an investment grade collection. That aside, nice video, good information.

Can you tell us which bank did change $10 gold coin banknote for a $10 gold eagle coin.

Notes look awesome and that was a very good primer. Still I don’t want to own them. Now if an “influencer” can start buying seated dimes I’ll sell into that market.

In you opinion, is there any modern currency that has investment potential?

What about the 1918 $2 Battleship reverse note?

Awesome video. I've been watching all your new content and I'm currently working on my currency collection lately, so it was timely. I was lusting after those notes! I did have a few thoughts about this though. Your suggestion for buying CU65(ish) notes didn't explain the reasoning behind buying that grade. One of the things I consider when buying any collectible (even the old ones like coins and currency) is the amount of doubling time that went into making it's value. In addition, I also consider the Optimal Collecting Grade (OCG). Can you tackle these topics sometime?

Many of the most interesting pieces simply don't come in such high grades, such as 1861 demand notes, 1875 national gold bank notes, and many others for which such ultra high grade notes either don't exist,or are in excess of $100,000.00

Why does a video about currency collecting already have 6 thumbs down? Also, do you think ease of storage should be a consideration for collecting coins versus currency? Currency is beautiful, but it seems like it would be harder to preserve in good condition compared to coins if you're storing it in a safety deposit box.

My father has old currency should I talk him into getting them cert/graded?

Was the $5 Rainbow a Star ⭐️ Note ? Ty

Excellent beginner video on collecting large size notes. I agree with you that premium grades are always the best option however I myself enjoy a large amount of varieties and thus have to budget appropriately. I have posted a ton of videos on my large size notes and also small size and coins. Check it out sometime you may enjoy! Subbed

We also did not get to hear your evaluation on your 1922 ten dollar gold certificate.

Can you speculate on items you consider investment grade collectables in the 50-1000$ range. Or is their nothing in that area? Such as if one is investing traditionally, and want physical assets and particular collectables to throw say 10-30% of their investment money in and it's in that low dollar range what is the collectables sector to go into and gain more knowledge of investing in

Would the 1930"s paper money be worth saving?

Hey I love your content, I was wondering if you could post a list of books that are helpful for finance/stocks or something to get started with because I want to learn more!

is it possible to communicate via a phone.

Well I have 1923 20 bill. And blue and red ink bills

I got my hands on the collection I’ve had in a box for about 8 to 10 years… it’s got all kinds of currency and I have no idea if I have something valuable

What about NON US paper money? you can make more money on US stuff than other countries?

Paper name ?

How to purchase

I take the ten dollar1922 gold coin banknote to different bank. No bank can change a $10 gold coin for me.

Aint is a word in Texas.

Important to NOTE: Very Punny.

Ummmm .... your banknotes are actually worth more than what you mentioned. Good morning:)

take a shot every time he picks a note up.