Here's a star note worthy of its own thread!

I've often asked myself in my time spent searching thou all the bills i look at if its worth it. In my experience i'am reminded of that answer only a few times a year. But its those infrequent moments when my eyes open wide and jaw drops in surprise in finding a desirable and awesome note in circulation. In this case unlike other times which make this find a more treasured and gratifying it has no margin tears..stains...or pin holes. In all the years spent in circulating it retains a lot of crispness and has bright paper in addition doesn't have any distracting major folds. Without further ado i present my $1 2003 San Francisco radar/repeater star note.

 

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You weren't kidding.

 

It's not a radar, but nice four digit repeater.

 

Niiiiiiiice!

 

Nice find! Repeater, yes, but not radar. But it is binary.

 

Yeah, once in awhile something nice pops up.

 

Funny, my wife says the same thing.

 

Very nice find!

 

Took awhile but something nice popped up again....

 

It is a repeater but not a radar. For this note to be a radar it would read 00777700, 07700770, or 77000077, 07077070. A true radar has to have the center two digits match, the second four digits the exact opposite of the first four like looking in a mirror. This bill does not do that.

It is a very nice low digit repeater star note.

 

A true radar reads the same forward and backward.

 

I know the difference now. Just wanted to dig up the old thread from a year and a half ago and post another two digit star repeater found in circulation.

 

Thats a winner

 

Here's a radar note, I'm thinking about selling it on eBay.

 

Actually, the word radar is technically a "palindrome":

Any series of marks that are the same read forward and backwards like:
noon
a toyota
a man a plan a canal panama
12321

 

And here are some 10 dollar star notes I have been plucking out of circulation. 2009 $10 Star Notes seems to be not too uncommon. I've listed these for $150 on eBay but no takers.

 

oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

On topic...is it really a radar if the letters don't match?

Rob

 

• I think the general consensus is that the letters don't have to match.
• The topic of this thread is about star notes. I'm on topic.
• What's a "oozy rat in a sanitary zoo", are you calling me a rat? @Teddydogno1

 

@bonniview Do you think these are worth anything over their F.V. ?

I do the same thing, look for star notes in circulation. I haven't had much success in selling them, however, fancy serial number bills do sell well. Now, yours is a combination of star & fancy serial, very highly desirable. My guess would be that they'll fetch around $30 for *0077 & $20 for *0063, IMO, I could be way off here.

Here is some of dollar star notes I got from circulation. I put them on ebay for $15 for all 10 but no takers. I'm not after the $5 profit, by the time I pay the eBay fee, envelopes and such, I might make a dollar or 2. I'm just trying to figure out how is the market for these bills. I just might give up saving these type of stars, just too much effort and no return.

 

The "oozy rat" is another palindrome sentence. I was getting back on topic by asking a question about the letters in the SN.

rob