Strap hunt with some interesting finds

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Nice haul. On the sources question, the only free one I actually trust is completed sold listings with the date still attached to them, so this morning I pulled 30 fancy serial sales from the last 90 days to see what a strap is really worth pulling for.

What surprised me is that the pattern name matters a lot more than how hard the pattern is to find. Sorted by median sold price:

radar / palindrome, n=4, median $27.45, range $20.00 to $72.00
binary, n=3, median $19.99, range $13.00 to $29.98
repeater, n=3, median $12.99, range $10.00 to $12.99
near solid / x of a kind, n=3, median $7.99, range $7.50 to $39.88
trinary, n=3, median $5.00, range $4.98 to $5.00

All of those ended 2026-09-16 or 09-17. Small buckets, so take it as direction and not gospel. The $39.88 in the near solid row was really a low serial sale (L0001600) wearing a 6 of a kind title, which is its own lesson about what the buyer is paying for.

Trinary is the one I would stop pulling. Three digits in a serial is the easiest thing in the world to spot flipping through a strap, and it lands at five bucks every single time, which is face plus shipping and your evening. A radar takes the same two seconds to check and pays about five times as much.

The other number worth knowing before you spend a night on stars: plain star notes move in lots, not singles. Three lots of nine sold on 09-17 at $24.50, $24.50 and $29.50, so roughly $2.70 to $3.30 a note. Low serial is the real exception and it has to be genuinely low. An 00007766 brought $100.00 on 09-17 while a 2021 $5 star with QJ0005794 sat at $7.99.

So the order I would scan a strap in now: low serial first, then radar, then binary. The rest are keepers rather than sellers.