Small Size US Star notes 1928 thru Current

Steve, below are the printages for Series 1969-C star notes (*) as shown in the 3rd edition of U.S. Paper Money (Friedberg). I'm curious why the guidebooks prices are shown significantly higher for the San Francisco star notes of this Series even though other districts have far fewer reported printages for those districts? I don't use the actual values cited in such guidebooks for much accuracy, but why the dramatic value difference for this note to the others?

F-1906D* Cleveland - Printage: 480,000
F-1906E* Richmond - Printage: 480,000
F-1906F* Atlanta - Printage: 3,680,000
F-1906G* Chicago - Printage: 1,748,000
F-1906H* St. Louis - Printage: 640,000
F-1906I* Minneapolis - Printage: 640,000
F-1906J* Kansas City - Printage: 1,120,000
F-1906K* Dallas - Printage: 640,000
F-1906L* San Francisco - Printage: 2,400,000


I bought my Series 1969-C (F-1906H*) for my St. Louis FRN collection, from Robert a couple of years ago:

 

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I'm not sure why all of the '69C $1 Stars are pricey. The '69C $10, $20, $50, and $100 Stars are also expensive.
Maybe it has something to do with survival rate.

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I was more curious why the San Francisco stars are several times more than the rest, particularly since more were printed for San Francisco. The other districts, even with far fewer printed, are closer in price than San Francisco.

From your scan we can see:

F-1906D* Cleveland - Printage: 480,000 [Your printage 640,000] $40
F-1906E* Richmond - Printage: 480,000 [Your printage 480,000] $50
F-1906F* Atlanta - Printage: 3,680,000[Your printage 3,680,000] $25
F-1906G* Chicago - Printage: 1,748,000 [Your printage 1.373,000] $25
F-1906H* St. Louis - Printage: 640,000 [Your printage 640,000] $25
F-1906I* Minneapolis - Printage: 640,000 [Your printage 640,000] $35
F-1906J* Kansas City - Printage: 1,120,000 [Your printage 1,120,000] $25
F-1906K* Dallas - Printage: 640,000 [Your printage 640,000] $35
F-1906L* San Francisco - Printage: 2,400,000 [Your printage 2,400,000] $200

Survival rates may be the answer or perhaps "L" notes were printed in larger quantity but not released?

Maybe NUMBERS has an answer for this?


Statistics on Series 1969-C at uspapermoney.info
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This is a little tough to pick my favorites; at this moment I'll pick these:

 

Great Emergency Stars Bill !

 

Man I need to go through and look at my Stars but until then, I have not even put these away yet. Found a few weeks ago in a mixed brick of old and new notes from the Fed. Pair from a 640K run, crisp and consecutive.

 

A pair of 2003A Atlanta Stars....




This pair has nice centering.

 

A pair of 95 $1 Minneapolis Stars....

 

Well Steve you know me, Emergencys are my thing. Here are the last two I picked up. I like high grade notes but sometimes they're just not available. A scarce rag is better than nothing.

 

Wowza! WEG!!! Those're some serious pick ups! Nice hard to find stars, even though that hole in the $5 is unfortunate, I can understand how that might be more attainable in lower price becuase of it. Still, nothing to shake a stick at. These stars are just not always available. Thanks for sharing and congrats on these additions.