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Message:: [QUOTE="Small Size, post: 2659454, member: 77924"]Scarcity and demand equal value. I have a $1 1928D SC star note. It's been pressed, maybe starched. But it's whole, good color, and also it's one of twenty known. Anybody wanting to complete a collection of $1 notes by series, with a regular and star example of each, is going to need one. The registry competition instigated by TPG's makes the competition even fiercer. What's it worth? Beats me. A lot more than I paid for it, I reckon. Mid-four figures maybe. Maybe low five if two Internet zillionaires fight over it at auction. It's not for sale anyway.I also have some stamps just as rare. Pre-war Malayan stamps with inverted Japanese occupation overprints on them. No more than a few hundred made. Maybe a few dozen survived. Unlike the note above, they're mint, NH, their gum tinted with just enough tropical toning to verify their original condition. I'd be lucky to get $100 a piece for them. Not many stamp collectors are interested, despite their rarity and historical importance.[/QUOTE]