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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 3428054, member: 11668&quot;]Yes, but that won&#039;t make it worth a premium, because it&#039;s still too common.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do the math, about 1 in every 144 serial numbers is a trinary, so they&#039;re pretty easy to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>A binary is much rarer, appearing once in about 8750 serial numbers.&nbsp; Radars and repeaters are each 1 in 10,000.&nbsp; And those are on the *common* end of the fancy-serial market.&nbsp; At the rare end, a solid serial is 1 in 10,000,000, and a perfect ladder is 1 in 16,666,667...and of course a serial number 00000001 is one in 100,000,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, for marginally fancy serial numbers like binaries, it&#039;s a lot easier to sell a $1 than something like a $20.&nbsp; If a binary $1 would sell for $5, that does *not* mean a binary $20 would sell for $100.&nbsp; More like, a binary $20 would be difficult to sell at all, because nobody wants to tie up $20 in face value for a fancy number that&#039;s only worth a $5 premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do keep on checking your serial numbers--there are good finds to be had out there.&nbsp; But don&#039;t expect to make good finds very often; the good finds are good precisely because they&#039;re rare.&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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