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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2494905, member: 11668&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; The BEP uses stars in two different ways: When they catch a defective note *before* the sheets have been cut, they replace the whole sheet by a sheet of stars.&nbsp; When they catch a defective note *after* the notes have been cut and strapped, they replace the whole strap by a strap of stars.</p><p><br /></p><p>In practice, they use a lot more stars in strap form than in sheet form.&nbsp; So the stars that come out in full straps tend to be common (printed in full runs), while the stars that are used in sheets, and come out scattered in straps of regular notes, tend to be much scarcer (printed in short partial runs).&nbsp; When you also take into account the fact that the full-strap stars are easier for cash handlers like yourself to spot (since you don&#039;t have to hunt through regular notes to find them), the result is that stars from full straps are a *lot* more common in the collector market than stars from sheets, that get inserted into regular straps.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when you find stars inserted in a regular strap, they&#039;re generally scarcer stars, from a short run.&nbsp; When you find an entire strap of stars, they&#039;re generally common stars, from a full run.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure whether the Ebay seller even knows all of that.&nbsp; He may just have noticed that straps with stars mixed in are popular, and decided to make up some of his own, not realizing the difference between common (strap-replacement) stars and scarcer (sheet-replacement) stars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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