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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Rare Matched Pair B 06938292 * : Exclusive Auction Ending February 9th - Bid Now!

  February 06, 2025      Past Expiry

Rare 2013B Star Note Matched Pair Up for Auction at GreatCollections

Rare Matched Pair B 06938292 * : Exclusive Auction Ending February 9th
Rare 2013B Star Note Matched Pair Up for Auction

Are you a numismatics enthusiast or a treasure hunter on the lookout for rare collectibles? Look no further! Project 2013B has confirmed another exciting matched pair of 2013B star notes, and it's now up for auction at GreatCollections. This particular pair has garnered significant attention due to its pristine condition and unique history.

Both banknotes in this matched pair have been graded Very Fine 25 (VF 25) by the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), ensuring their high quality and collectible value. The 'Fort Worth' printed 2013B star note was registered by member 6FSCC in 2024, while the 'Washington DC' printed 2013B star note was registered by member m1RcO in the same year.

Graded matched pair of 2013B star notes with duplicated serial number error, front view.
2013B star notes with duplicated serial number error, professionally graded and matched pair.

The journey of this matched pair began on September 20, 2024, when the serial numbers were confirmed to be a perfect match. Since then, it has captured the interest of collectors and enthusiasts alike. The auction for this rare matched pair started at an opening price of $500, and the high bid has already reached $525. The auction will conclude on February 9th at 8:01 PM Pacific time, right after the Super Bowl, making it an exciting event for collectors to mark on their calendars.

Project 2013B has been instrumental in connecting collectors and helping them discover these rare matched pairs. The project's database now boasts over 70,000 unique banknotes, with 11 confirmed matching pairs discovered so far this year. All 70,000+ serial numbers have the contact information of the owners, something that copycat websites cannot honestly claim.
Graded matched pair of 2013B star notes with duplicated serial number error, back view.
Back view: 2013B star notes with duplicated serial number error, professionally graded and matched pair.

If you're interested in participating in the auction or learning more about Project 2013B, visit the landing page by simply typing 2013b.com into your browser. Whether you're a seasoned collector or a newcomer to the world of numismatics, this auction presents a unique opportunity to own a piece of history.

Place your bid and join the ranks of collectors who have experienced the excitement of owning a matched pair of 2013B star notes. Alternatively, get inspired to search your $1 bills for 2013B star notes. If you find a match, your pair could be featured in an auction announcement just like this one (should you and the matching bill's owner choose to consign your matched pair through Project 2013B). 

Current Matched Pairs Up for Sale

Explore the latest matched pairs of 2013B star notes now available for auction at renowned auction houses and on our exclusive marketplace, 13Bay. These rare finds have been meticulously verified and graded, ensuring top quality for collectors and enthusiasts. Don't miss your chance to own a piece of numismatic history. Check out our auction listings and place your bids today!



Current Listings at 13Bay

Explore our marketplace for rare 2013B star notes, including matched pairs with unique serial number errors. Discover collectible treasures graded by PCGS, along with a selection of rare coins and other paper currency. Find your next prized possession today.


more coming soon

Luxury Corner

Imagine the amazing things you could buy on Amazon if you sold your matched pair for a few thousand dollars! Here are some of the craziest and most luxurious items you could treat yourself to.

1 Troy Oz. Lincoln Wheat Cent Authentic Silver Round



The Lincoln Commemorative Silver round is a stunning tribute to one of America's most revered presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Crafted from .999 fine silver, this 1 Troy ounce round is not just a beautiful collectible but also a valuable investment. The coin features the side profile of Lincoln, meticulously designed to capture his likeness.

What sets this piece apart is its free protective capsule, ensuring that your silver round remains in pristine condition. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just starting, this commemorative silver round is a must-have addition to your collection. 

The original 1909 S VDB cent is one of the most prized coins by collectors, known for its rarity and historical significance. However, this highly sought-after coin can be quite expensive. The Lincoln silver round offers a much more affordable facsimile, allowing you to own a piece of history without breaking the bank.

Imagine the pride of showcasing this exquisite silver round in your collection or gifting it to a fellow history enthusiast. Don't miss out on this opportunity to own a piece of history. Secure your Silver 1 oz. Lincoln Commemorative in protective capsule today!

Available at Amazon:  https://amzn.to/3WHmA3w

Disclaimer: Some of the links to the products you can by on this websites are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. You pay the same price whether you buy it through the link here, or buy it 'on your own' when on the Amazon site.

Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 


Check your spam folder for an email titled “PROJECT 2013B: Potential matching pair!” If you don’t find it, contact me through the website by clicking the Help icon in the navigation menu. 



Thursday, January 9, 2025

Matched Pair 04574890 sells at auction

  January 09, 2025      Past Expiry

Matched Serial Number 04574890 

Final closing bid
Final closing bid

Sunday night’s auction at Great Collections concluded and resulted in another pair submitted by Project 2013B being sold. The pairs, serial number 04574890, was submitted on behalf of the two co-owners, and sold for $1477.02.  After the buyer paid their premium, their total cost was 1661.65. The matched pair was pretty circulated, with both notes graded a 'Very Fine 25'.  The final bid was probably reasonable considering that a different matched pair which had better condition notes(graded Very Fine 30, and Very Fine 35) is still unsold. Not sure who exactly submitted the better condition pair, but it has been in at least 2 auctions since November, and failed to receive a bid on it's starting bid level of $2000.   Perhaps featuring the pair 04574890 (submitted by Project 2013b) on social media, facebook groups, this website, and the website's newletter had a real impact.

As I mentioned in previous posts, GreatCollections does not really do much in terms of promotion of your auction item.  They post your item on your site and that is about it.  If someone finds it in search, that is pretty much the exposure you get from what I can tell.  They do have a weekly emailed newsletter that alerts you of the next auction. It features images and the current bid of predominently gold or rare coins. In a recent newletter, I counted 345 coins shown, and only 20 banknotes shown.  Of the 20 banknotes, the vast majority were over 100 years old.  The matched pair that was consigned through Project 2013B sold at a price higher than half of the notes that were in the newsletter, so it is puzzling what gets you shown in their newsletter.

Front of matched pair that sold for $1477.02
Front of matched pair that sold for $1477.02

Back of matched pair that sold for $1477.02
Back of matched pair that sold for $1477.02


Matched Pairs For Sale

(Buy-it-Now $5920)

(Buy-it-Now $6060)

Current Listings at 13Bay



Luxury Corner

Imagine the amazing things you could buy on Amazon if you sold your matched pair for a few thousand dollars! Here are some of the craziest and most luxurious items you could treat yourself to.

1 Gram Gold Bar Bar New with Black Assay Australia| Perth Mint
Tamper-proof packaging
a Majestic Swan... everyone could use a majestic swan.

Perth Minted Gold Bars are precisely "struck" with 9999 pure gold. The front of each Minted Gold Bar is engraved with the Mint's signature swan logo.   

BAR HIGHLIGHTS Made of 1 g 9999 Fine Gold Obverse: Portrays The Perth Mint Swan logo encircled by the inscriptions “THE PERTH MINT” and “AUSTRALIA” and the metal weight and purity Reverse: repeated pattern of Kangaroos

Available at Amazon 

Disclaimer: Some of the links to the products you can by on this websites are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. You pay the same price whether you buy it through the link here, or buy it 'on your own' when on the Amazon site.

Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 

Saturday, December 28, 2024

[Graded] Matched Pair B 04574890 * for sale

  December 28, 2024      Past Expiry

Duplicate Serial Number 04574890

Both prints of the 2013 duplicated serial number matched pair
Both prints of the 2013 duplicated serial number matched pair

Both prints of the 2013 duplicated serial number matched pair
Both prints of the 2013 duplicated serial number matched pair

...and it is up for auction

Up for auction at GreatCollections
Up for auction at GreatCollections

This pair was sent to PCGS on behalf of the two co-owners for grading, and is now available at GreatCollections for auction.  The auction is scheduled to end on Sunday, January 5th, 2025.  Despite only 1 bid at the present time, the auction listing is labelled 'Hot' (flame) as there have been a large number of views.

Matched Pairs For Sale



(auction ends Jan5th)

Current Listings at 13Bay

The Project 2013B Marketplace

Luxury Corner

Imagine the amazing things you could buy on Amazon if you sold your matched pair for a few thousand dollars! Here are some of the craziest and most luxurious items you could treat yourself to.

First Strike - Flag Label - Struck at West Point - $1 PCGS MS70
First Strike - Flag Label - Struck at West Point - $1 PCGS MS70 

The 2024 1 oz American Silver Eagle Brilliant Uncirculated coin represents a remarkable addition to any collection. Struck at the San Francisco Mint, this coin is in perfect condition and carries an MS-70 rating, indicating it is flawless. Made of .999 fine silver, it features the Walking Liberty design on one side and the eagle motif on the reverse.  Available at Amazon.

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Disclaimer: Some of the links to the products you can by on this websites are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. You pay the same price whether you buy it through the link here, or buy it 'on your own' when on the Amazon site.

Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Rare Matched Pair 05260338: Exclusive Auction Ending December 15th - Bid Now!

  December 14, 2024      Past Expiry

Duplicate Serial Number 05260338

Rare Matched Pair 05260338: Exclusive Auction Ending December 15th - Bid Now!
Matched Pair up for auction.  Going... Going...

At the time of writing, this pair's top bid was a mere $825. Where it will end up is up in the air when it comes to GreatCollections (and most auction houses I find). There was a recent auction where there were NO BIDS in the last 24 hours, so if that becomes the case for this particular pair, in my opinion, someone would get an utter steal!  

LINK to the auction is : GreatCollections Matched Pair

There was also an auction where a much lower graded pair sold for $500 on GreatCollections on December 2nd, 2023. On December 17th, only 15 days later, the same exact pair was sold on eBay for $5,900! Someone REALLY lucked out in that case, as there have been matched pairs that had higher grades and which sold for LESS than $5,900.  They definitely "had a horseshoe up their arse" on both days.

Just for fun I took the auction history data for matched pairs that were initially discovered by Project 2013B and later sold at auction.  The following are what some of the results were, for either the same or better grades:

Discovered bySerial NumberSite1st note Grade2nd note gradeAverage GradeHammer Price
Project 2013B5861487eBay673048.5$25,000.00
Project 2013B5861487eBay673048.5$4,504.00
Project 2013B6541258Stack's Bowers67 EPQ2546.0$2,600.00
Project 2013B7507340eBay66 EPQ3048.0$4,250.00
Project 2013B5395256Great Collections663048.0$3,002.00
Project 2013B5445594eBay65 EPQ3047.0$5,138.00
unknown4730913Great Collections65PPQ2042.5$4,300.00
unknown4730913eBay65PPQ2042.5$7,200.00
unknown4730913eBay65PPQ2042.5$8,500.00


This pair was initially confirmed way back on December 21, 2023 as announced here.  The pair is consigned by Project 2013B on behalf of the two co-owners, otherwise I would bid myself! The one take-away from the table above is that prices for these matched pairs is VOLATILE. Perhaps as more matched pairs go to auction, and more collectors know about this production error, prices will find some sort of equilibrium.  Or maybe not! Prices are always suprising me to both the upside and the downside.

Matched Pairs For Sale



GreatCollections: 2013B* Duplicate SN 05260338 Matched Pair GU65+VF30  (Auction Ends Dec 15)

Current Listings at 13Bay


Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

[Auction] Matched Pair B 05260338 *

  November 27, 2024      Past Expiry

Duplicate Serial Number B 05260338 *

2013 Star Note with Duplicated Serial number - Front

2013 Star Note with Duplicated Serial number - Back

Initially confirmed last December, the pair is now graded and up for auction with bids starting at $500. The auction is scheduled to close on December 15th.

This auction listing can be found at GreatCollections

Milestones

66000 Serial Numbers registered milestone


None of which could not be achieved with the now 16,000 members!

16000 member milestone

For those unable to picture 16,000 people, that is how many would fill Hershey Park Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania... and still turn back about 400.

16,000 people capacity stadium visualized
16,000 people capacity stadium visualized




Matched Pairs at Auction



GreatCollections: 2013B* Duplicate SN 05260338 Matched Pair GU65+VF30  (Auction Ends Dec 15)

Current Auctions at 13Bay


Luxury Corner

Imagine the amazing things you could buy on Amazon if you sold your matched pair for a few thousand dollars! Here are some of the craziest and most luxurious items you could treat yourself to.

Big Enter Key Enter Key Pillow

Functions as a 2nd enter key, and also functions as a pillow!  Also compatible with entering serial numbers at Project 2013B!

Pillow for mid-afternoon slump
Pillow for mid-afternoon slump

Available at Amazon



Disclaimer: Some of the links to the products you can by on this websites are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. You pay the same price whether you buy it through the link here, or buy it 'on your own' when on the Amazon site.

Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 

Monday, November 25, 2024

Error Note Auction report: 3 Pairs and a Rant

  November 25, 2024      Past Expiry

Below Expectations

Sunday night’s auction at Great Collections was, as far as I know, the first auction where there were 3 matched pairs up for auction at the same time. One of the pairs, serial number 07657842, was submitted on behalf of the two co-owners by Project 2013B. It managed to garner the highest bid of the three pairs auctioned, but was still below my expectations.
07657842 sold at auction
07657842 sold at auction

I allowed Great Collections to set the starting bid and they inexplicably, and lazily chose $1. Amateurs.

The other two pairs had a starting bid of $300, and $2000 respectively. The pair with the starting bid of $2000 (serial number 06827153), featured a matched pair graded 30 and 35, but received no bids. That pair incidently was first detected and confirmed here at Project 2013B back in December of last year.
Perhaps some promotion by Project 2013B would of helped.
Perhaps some promotion by Project 2013B would of helped.

The third pair was languishing under $400 until Sunday evneing when it sold for a respectable amount. This pair (serial number 07548348) was also first confirmed on Project 2013B, way back in April 2023.
For only $400 more they oculd of bought a pair graded 64 & 25
For only $400 more they oculd of bought a pair graded 64 & 25

A full history of Duplicate Serial Number Matched Pairs can be found here: https://auction-history.2013b.com

The rant

Overall, my experience with Great Collections with this particular matched pair was less than stellar.  I made the ‘mistake’ of submitting 3 matched pairs (not to be confused with the 3 pairs of Sunday’s auction) at the same time back in MAY, and apparently it was too much for their brains to handle.  Other than an email to say that they received my package, there was pretty much zero communication (a common experience I had with both Heritage Auctions and StacksBowers as well) for over 2 months.  I was told there was a backlog at the grading companies so I gave them the benefit of the doubt.

One day the sparse seller dashboard of my account showed a new status that stated the bills were being RETURNED.  It turned out a mistake on their part as someone was not aware that the bills were matched pairs, and was going to return them as they felt most of the bills were not worth grading on an individual basis. This was despite LABELLING each bill’s holder as to what each bill was, with the subtext of “1 of 2” or “2 of 2”, AND, a concise letter spelling out that these were 3 matched pairs and breaking down each of the 3 pairs and how I wanted the grading company to label each.   It just twists my brain into a knot when a business that has a single purpose for existing, has difficulty in doing that one job.  You had ONE job.

You MIGHT think the story ends here, but... nope.  With the screw-up sorted I was assured the banknotes would be sent to grading as soon as possible.   In the meantime I joined PMG, and sent them a matched pair to be graded, which I eventually put up for sale on the Project 2013B website.  From the day I put the matched pair in the mail, to the time I received the graded notes back from PMG, took a total of 37 days. This was all done choosing a 30 day turn-around as I didn't want to pay the extra expense of a rush service.  I then checked the status of the pairs at GreatCollections, and the status was STILL unchanged. 

What followed was over a week of no responses to my email asking for the status of my consignments.  No response from the acccount person I usually dealt with, none using the website's contact form, and none from the 'Director of Client Services'.  I escalated it to the President, who to his credit emailed back right away that he would look into it. The following day, all 3 pairs showed up with the new status of  'graded'.  There is one matched pair left of the 3 pairs in the batch I sent them that has not been auctioned yet.  I was told November 11th they would let me know in a few days when that auction will occur. Still no word.

So what does a smooth auction at GreatCollections look like?  In the middle of the long journey detailed above I sent a single pair to GreatCollections, and from the day I sent them the pair to the end of the auction took 2 months. Actual payment took 30 days to get to me by mail; to get the money wired is an option but they will charge you a fee of $50!  Fees. Fees. Fees.

This experience (and my experiences with StacksBowers) is partly the reason I set up the Project 2013B marketplace which I cheekily named “13Bay”.  It is still early days, but hopefully it can gain traction and we can avoid the need for auction houses and eBay, and at lower cost.  For now, they are a necessary evil.

Auctioneer reference photo
Auctioneer reference photo

Matched Pairs at Auction




Current Auctions at 13Bay


Are YOU Missing In Action?

Project 2013B has a list of members who didn’t respond to our contact attempts. If your serial number or Owner ID appears on the following webpage, please contact us—you are part-owner of a matched pair! 
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