I’m guessing by the signature it’s a series 2013. Some collectors like these, personally I don’t see all the fuss. Depending on condition and who wants it, under $5 . Your economic use of words is remarkable.
It all depends on what you collect, people that like odd numbers May pay a little over face, but you would have to find the right person.
If it is a 2013, there were 26,100,000 printed. And your run was 3,200,000 notes. Not worth over face. You can look these star notes up at "mycurrencycollection.com".
I am not sure what the OP means by bookends. If it were an error note bookends would be the serial number before and after the error. But for the serial number shown just being a star note, all you would have is consecutive serial numbers.
The OP’s “bookends” is a term used primarily on eBay to hype a note with nothing else going for it. 14 2159 14 the number 14 bookending the center number.
It's a dollar to me. The odds of the 1st and last 2 numbers on an 8 number serial being the same are not remarkable in the least. Some stars have value, but to me 99% of them are over rated.
I agree. Some newer collectors get their collector knowledge from eBay listings. The term bookend note on eBay is different than professionally described auction listings found on Heritage, Stacks and other auctions. eBay lets the auction owner use their own description. So, you get terms like bookend, broken ladder, trinary and WOW & LOOK and super low serial number used on serial numbers with two leading zeros.
Yeah. Traditionally, bookend serials needed to have zeroes in the middle: 14000014. If you allow any old digits in the middle, they become way too easy to find, and therefore not worth much.
People need to star looking at sold listings. There are plenty of "bookends" listed, but no one wants them for over face value!
