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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 652060, member: 11668&quot;]Well, for one thing, these were the only stars printed for the entire 2003A $2 series, so even the folks who don&#039;t collect by district will need one.</p><p><br /></p><p>For another thing, where did &quot;none were issued for circulation&quot; come from?&nbsp; I think some folks are getting confused about what &quot;printed for sheets&quot; means.&nbsp; These stars weren&#039;t sold as uncut sheets; they were printed for circulation but used as replacement sheets, rather than replacement straps.</p><p><br /></p><p>(There are two separate inspections at the BEP where star notes are used.&nbsp; First, the sheets are inspected right after the serial numbers are printed but before they&#039;re cut, and defective sheets are replaced with sheets of stars.&nbsp; Then after the cutting-and-strapping operation, the straps are spot-checked again, and if a defective note is found, the whole strap is thrown out and replaced with a strap of stars.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that the 2003A $2 F..* run was used as replacement sheets will tend to make it scarcer in CU condition.&nbsp; These notes will enter circulation sprinkled through straps of regular notes, rather than as full straps of stars that are easy for a cash-vault teller to spot and divert to the collector market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, most of these stars probably aren&#039;t in circulation yet at all.&nbsp; Many of them are sitting in the Fed, where they&#039;ve still got enough new $2&#039;s in the vaults to last for several years (they&#039;ve said that they don&#039;t need the BEP to print any more in either 2009 or 2010).&nbsp; And it&#039;s likely that many more are still sitting in the BEP, waiting to be used as replacements the next time $2&#039;s are printed (just as leftover 2003 $2 I..* straps were used as replacements during the 2003A printing, so that no 2003A $2 stars needed to be printed for replacement straps).&nbsp; They&#039;ll get out eventually, but collectors are a notoriously impatient bunch (see: former Ebay prices for 2009 cents), so for now the values are a bit unrealistically high.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus, if you can sell them for anything near the catalog value, I&#039;d suggest doing so.&nbsp; But I sure ain&#039;t paying that much....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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