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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1231477, member: 11668&quot;]It comes and goes. Back in the &#039;70s, there was quite the craze for collecting stars by serial groups--if you think modern catalogs have too many detailed numbers, you should see the old O&#039;Donnell one!&nbsp; Then that faded out, and for a number of years most people just collected stars by district.&nbsp; Nowadays a lot of folks collect by runs.&nbsp; What next?&nbsp; Who knows!&nbsp; As with any other area of collecting, the value of a note in the future will be determined (in part) by the preferences of future collectors, which aren&#039;t readily predictable.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may be that, twenty years from now, nobody collects stars by run.&nbsp; Or it may be that nobody collects stars any other way.&nbsp; And as your quote points out, even if future collectors *do* care about runs, it may be that the larger runs end up being scarcer, if not as many people save them now.&nbsp; (The BEP printed more 1969C $1&#039;s than 1963B $1&#039;s, but the latter were hoarded and the former generally were not, so the 1969C is much tougher today.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d recommend collecting in a way that interests you, and not worrying too much about the future value of your notes.&nbsp; If you enjoy trying to collect all the runs, then do that.&nbsp; If you&#039;d rather ignore the runs and collect by district, then do that.&nbsp; If you&#039;d rather skip all the modern stuff entirely and collect large-size type, then do that.&nbsp; What you should *not* do, is try to guess what&#039;ll be most valuable in the future, and then hoard as many of that thing as you can.&nbsp; There&#039;s an excellent chance you&#039;ll end up wasting your money, and you probably won&#039;t even have much fun in the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>. . .</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, to clarify something mentioned in that quote of yours: Typically, the short star runs are used as replacement sheets, rather than replacement packs.&nbsp; Thus <i>most short-run stars don&#039;t exist as full packs</i>, which is part of the reason some collectors enjoy trying to chase them down.&nbsp; These are the runs where it&#039;ll never be as simple as &quot;one or two packs [to] satisfy the collector demand for decades&quot;.&nbsp; Exceptions exist, where some particular short run *was* turned into replacement packs--and those runs shouldn&#039;t, and generally don&#039;t, sell for anything like the premiums of the typical short runs.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, some of us *are* crazy enough to collect by runs in areas other than modern stars.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; For example, I&#039;m working on a run set of non-star 1976 $2&#039;s.&nbsp; So far I&#039;m up to 896 out of 899.&nbsp; And no, I don&#039;t think anyone&#039;s going to pay extra for these notes because of the runs--but that&#039;s okay; I didn&#039;t pay extra for them either.&nbsp; I&#039;m just a slightly OCD math nerd who appreciates this sort of thing, so it&#039;s what I do....&nbsp; I personally don&#039;t understand why some of y&#039;all are into researching the engravers who did the currency designs, but that certainly doesn&#039;t mean you *shouldn&#039;t* care about them.&nbsp; Different strokes, y&#039;know?&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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