What happened to all of the Series 1995 $20's?!

I have pulled every older style Series of $20 out of circulation from 1977 consecutively to 1993... Thats the problem though; what about 1995?? Why is it that nobody has any 1995 $20's? I only have one. I bought it from a buddy a while back. It's the only 1995 $20 star I can find, anywhere. I'll post a picture to make this a bit more interesting. If you have any Series 1995 $20's... Please post em here and tell how you got it. I can't understand why it is that I've pulled plenty of regular 1985...1988A... 1990... 1993... But never any 1995? Doesn't add up. Its not like it was a low partial series or anything like that either, looking at USPaperMoney.Info I am able to see that there were plenty of them printed... It almost seems like they were all destroyed right away before even entering circulation or shipped off over seas due to the new 1996 $20 design or something. Can't quite understand it... I can't even find any on eBay or any on any US currency websites I know of, some of which have very rare items for sale... Anybody know the value of this $20?

 

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About 3 years ago I got abunch of old twenties dating from 1990-1996 from a Wamu cash dispenser. I think I got about 35 old twenties in all, they smelled nice like they were stored away in a wooden chest of drawers for a long time. This lot included quite a few 1995 twenties, some of which I still have today.

 

I've been seeing a few older twenties myself, lately. Within the last 3 months, or so, I've received 4 small head $20's. 2 Series 1990 (one of which is a star, which I kept), 1 Series 1993 (also kept, due to condition) and 1 Series 1995, which was a total rag.
Before this, however, it had been at least 10 years, or so, since I had seen a small head $20 in circulation, of any series.

In looking up series 1995 $20's on uspapermoney.info, I noticed that none were printed for Boston, which I found kind of interesting.

 

I've seen a few 60s/70s/80s come through from time to time at the store, mostly in bad shape. I see a few 90s per week although I can't recall ever getting a 1995. Don't really pay a ton of attention though because I can't afford to keep them (except for the '34 I got from the bank).I'll keep an eye out for ya though.

 

Well, ya know what they say: "The Squeeky wheel gets the greece". :yes:


Still, thats the first of like a million other old style $20's I've seen.

 

The 1995 $20's are scarce, and my guess to whereabouts of the vast majority of U.S. distributed notes is here, http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/5lbbagofshreddeduscurrency.aspx

 

Leave it to Steve to point out the most obvious when no body else can seem to figure something out that seems complicated but has an obvious answer. Great observation, Steve! I never would have thought of that. Do u think it is AT ALL possible to piece those notes together? Even if DAYS maybe MONTHS were spent trying? I would guess not. The BEP probably shreds them, mixes the shreds so much thats its impossible to piece them together... Thats just a guess though, truely I have no idea. Maybe it is possible and there are people doing it? That would be fun. Purchase a bag for $50 and turm that into an extra easy 10k.

 

I've tried it and it is very difficult because it seems like no shreds match each other indicating that the machinery mixes the currency very well after shredding. Even if you find shreds of comparable design they are all cut unevenly and don't match up. I tried it with $1 notes that were shredded in the mid-1990s. I've had better luck with never released BEP $5 1977A shreds, it looked kind of cool when the shreds were pinned together on cardboard. These days the machinery shreds the currency vertically as well as horizontally rendering much smaller pieces than in years past so newer shredded currency is even harder to interpret than it used to be.

 

How might I aquire something similar to your 1977A $5's? Still got them?

 

I bought all of my shredded currency on ebay. I have alot of shredded notes that I don't really care about anymore and can get them down from the attic tomorrow afternoon and see what I have for you if you'd like.

 

I am curious to see what the results are of piecing the bills together. You said you bought those bags back in the '90s when you were able to piece them together?

 

No, I bought them around 3 years ago. They just happened to have been shredded in the mid-1990s, I could tell by looking at the series dates and signatures. About 90% are 1988A, 8% 1993 and 2% 1995 which indicates they were shredded when series 1995 was still a fairly new series. I also have a container of circulated $1 notes that were shredded around 1980.

 

So how many have you successfully pieced back together? I would buy a bag if I could piece enough together to pay for it and to get some old notes. It says online that they are not magnetized, so were the notes you did piece together magnetized?

 

The closest I came to piecing them back together was one time with the 1977A fives. I had modest success with the mid-1990 shreds. I attempted to make one note from each lot but it's not like you can tape the notes back together and create a note that you can spend. Like I said earlier they are difficult to reassemble as you can't find matching pieces and each note is cut unevenly. If you want some of mine lmk.

 

After reading, and commenting to this thread started by Travis, I thought I'd look around and see if any of my sources had any 1995 $20's. I was surprised to see so few available. The ones I saw selling on eBay were way overpriced, and mostly circulated. I finally got lucky and found a consecutive pair from the Minneapolis (I-A) district. Most guides show CH-CU examples to be valued at the $45-$50 range. I was able to score these for $30 each. I'll post photos when they arrive. The only example I own so far is in a BEP issued album with a 1995 $20 displayed with the new design 1996 $20.

 

It took me 2 years to hunt down the 1995 $20 star I have. I was deperately looking every where I could, until I found somebody who had the one I now own, and I bought it off him. The Series 1995 $20's, IMO are extremely scarce and are to be treated as such. You are so lucky to have found that pick-up. I would have bought that as well, especially Minneapolis district. Nice pick-up, Steve. I am a Series star collector, so I am always trying to add variety in my collection. I'd be very interested to see the pictures of them when they do arrive.

-Travis

 

I've been thinking about this post, and maybe (even though many series 1995 $20's were printed) not all notes from this series intended for general circulation, actually reached circulation. Because, just because notes are recorded as printed, doesn't mean that they actually have circulated.

I wouldn't be surprised if the fed printed these notes, as a precautionary measure, in case there was a delay with the series 1996 big head $20's. Then, once the '96's entered circulation, the series 1995's were no longer needed.
So, the notes that were not needed were either shredded, or, they could be sitting in a fed vault someplace? If there is ever a shortage of $20's, maybe they'll pull them out of storage! (Not likely, I know)

-Jason.

 

This was a funny post.. but I think you might be better off cutting coupons and sending them in for the cash value!!! :yes:
J/K.. never thought about how hard that might be though..

 

Well, the idea wouldn't be to make or save some money, but I think it would be cool to piece together some old style bills and watch them "gradually come back to life". Don't you think so?

 

They for sure wouldn't ever do anything life this. I do know that they do stuff like that with coinage, but never paper currency. Still a funny thought though. That would actually make me mad if they pulled something life that. Than I would have to wait longer to see any premiums on all my small head $20's, that would suck.