Yay! I found a star note!

I am so excited, it's my first real find! It's a 2003 series $5 star note with the serial number DC 00000417*. It is crisp but has some slightly curled edges and a vertical fold... but I don't care, it's beautiful! And just one week ago I didn't even know what a star note was. :hammer:

 

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WHAT?!?!?

FIVE ZEROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's a keeper even if it isnt a star note!
lets see a picture!

 

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! sweet find

 

Good find!

 

Sorry but you'll just have to use your imagination... I don't have a camera atm.

 

Ok Hin....time for you to pass the knowledge....:mouth:
I can guess a asterix at the end of serial is a star note....:kewl:
but whats so special bout them??

 

Quick answer = When the mint finds a note with an error they replace it with a star note.
In depth anwer = Wikipedia: Star Note.

Quite a few people have posted pictures of their recently found star notes, like RickieB, Mark_h, Magman, and Haleiwa. As you can see, they actually have stars on them, not just an asterisk.

Another type of note to be on the lookout for is the web note.

 

Thanks a lot for the useful info...:bow:

 

nice pickup. its always great to get a star note. even better with such a low serial. from what i can see it might also have come from a short run of only 640,000 notes. yeah i would say that isnt just any regular star note. hold onto that baby!!!!

 

nice find! the low serial supersedes the "star" quality IMHO.

 

wow! thats unbelieveable.
IMO it will fetch a couple hundred on the bay.

 

I only noticed the serial number because it was a star note, lol. I better pay closer attention to my money.

A couple hundred? Really? I looked on e-bay at some completed listings of star notes with 4 zeros and the really good condition ones weren't going for more than 30 bucks. Does one more zero really make that big of a difference?

I'll try to get a picture posted in the next few days.

 

IMO yes it does, I was bidding on a Canadian 5$ serial 0000007 and it went for 185$ now think about it with the rarity of a star note. Of course it isn't as low as the 5. IMO you could get 200 for it...(depending on the condition of the note)

 

Wow, that's cool.

 

First off nice find Hin.

Gonna look it up at work in the new book. Think you may have a short run there.

Snaz,

Serial number 7 is a far cry from a three digit serial number. That's why it went so high.

I just found DC-* notes on a site retailing at $50 in CU.

clembo

 

I think so.

1-2 zero's are fairly common, 3 zeros somewhat uncommon, 4 zeros, fairly rare I'd say. (If I found a note with 4 I'd keep it)
5 Zero's though... thats headed into some rare territory

 

then I would be watching this auction, cause I would be willing to pay more than that to have it in my collection

 

And it should be noted that on *star* notes, at least in recent years, one leading zero is pretty standard. Stars just aren't printed in huge quantities, so most of the time, they never even get up to serial 10000000 in any given series/denomination/district.

In the 2003A $1's, for example, some 68% of all star notes had serials beginning with zero, and 14% began with double-zero. In the 2003 $1's, it was 87% and 14%; in the 2001 $1's, 99% and 15%. Higher-denomination stars are generally printed in even smaller quantities, so the pattern is even more pronounced; it's not unusual for every single star note in an entire series to start with zero. You have to go back to Series 1999 to find the last time the BEP printed a star serial beginning with a 2 (on a $5 rather than a $1, oddly enough).

 

congrats it reminds me of my first star note which took more than 6 years to acquire you can laugh about it if you like but then i found one every month for the next 6 months and now the dry run is back

 

can i ahve the site after you are done. i would like to buy some for face. thanks.