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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SteveInTampa, post: 1231323, member: 27107&quot;]I also keep <b>most</b> star notes found in circulation, but sometimes the print run numbers can be deceiving. Take the 2004A $10 star notes for example. Everyone salivates over the GF* (Atlanta) star because of the low print run, 9,600, but I believe the 1st run San Francisco star, GL*, may end up being the key star note, even with 128,000 being printed. All of the GF*&#039;s went directly into collectors hands, and the GL*&#039;s (run 1) were distributed 2 at a time, in 100 pack sleeves into general circulation, making them much harder to find in uncirculated condition. The following is a short opinion from a respected dealer and author of a small-size currency guide that I found interesting;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In short I don&#039;t have much respect for the &quot;Run&quot; game and I&#039;m against having&nbsp; numerous runs in the book, ESPECIALLY for modern stars that are saved in ever&nbsp; greater quantities. If I was offering on them I would pay face value. I would&nbsp; caution against purchasing anything as a &quot;short&quot; run. Sure only 96,000 were&nbsp; printed ON THIS RUN but one or two packs will satisfy the collector demand for&nbsp; decades. Not only that but a month later they printed a million more in other&nbsp; runs. What makes this run4 worth more? Nothing in my mind. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Invariably my co-author puts these runs in the book at a high value and&nbsp; the next edition I drop them by 30% to 75% or more. Some will differ and there&nbsp; are about 12 people in the US that collect $100s by *run. think of it this way,&nbsp; every single issue of us currency, throughout history, had numerous runs on every&nbsp; single block. Why don&#039;t you see anyone collecting that way? Because it is a&nbsp; fools errand. In my opinion this &quot;run&quot; game is another way to artificially&nbsp; expand the number of notes to collect in any given series and is artificial&nbsp; rarity creation at its worth. It has been my experience in the last 20 years&nbsp; that 75% of these low issue runs turn up in higher quantity than notes of much&nbsp; higher printing numbers that didn&#039;t receive the hoarding attention because they&nbsp; were too common.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I somewhat agree, and notice in some price guides, that print run numbers just started appearing in the mid-90&#039;s. Something to think about if you collect modern era small-size notes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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