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Message:: [QUOTE="chip, post: 996784, member: 19122"]Just some thoughts concerning the topic of star notes for higher denominations, I think that is on topic, tangentially. I have read much about the coins I seem to be enamored of lately, mainly half dollars. An interesting thing about them to me is that at one time in the hobby half dollars were considered a high ticket item and something that most people could not afford to save. Banks at one time had half dollars as reserve currency, Barber halves were either circulated to pieces or hardly saw the light of day outside of a bank vault. I picked up a 50 dollar star note at the bank the other day, it was probably the paper equivalent of a vf-20 coin. I shopped it at a couple of dealers who both told me that THE FEW collectors that collect those higher denomination star notes, are picky enough to not purchase anything lower than choice uncirculated bills. My muse is that today will someday be the long gone past, 50 dollars today might be similar to 50 cents a hundred and fifty years ago. In that case, if you can swing it, it might be worthwhile long term to save those higher denomination star notes. You might not ever see a return on them, but your grandchildren might someday.[/QUOTE]