1963-B $1 “Barr” Notes
Joseph Barr served as Secretary of the Treasury only 28 days, from 12/21/1968 to 1/23/1969. The thought would be that Federal Reserve Notes with his signature would be rare. Not true!
The notes were produced for only 5 Federal Reserve Districts: New York, Richmond, Chicago, Kansas City, and San Francisco. However 471,200,000 notes (including star notes) were issued. Given this number and the fact that they were printed less than 50 years ago, they are quite common.
What is different about the 1963_B $1 series is that it was the last series to include the old Treasury Seal that had its inscription in Latin:
THESAUR.AMER.SEPTENT.SIGIL ( “The Seal of the Treasury of North America).
The new seal is inscribed in English and has been in use since 1968.
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