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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 3701795, member: 73489&quot;]My reason for creating this thread was to discuss all aspects, but especially <b><span style="color: #00b300">how special SN&#039;s -- including low SNs (my specialty) -- increase a bill&#039;s FMV. </span></b> More than anything, except big jumps in grades from the 40&#039;s to 60&#039;s, or the parabolic increases you can see once you move above Grade 65, <b><span style="color: #00b300">low/special SN&#039;s can really boost the percentage increase in FMV or what you pay for a bill.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>What I have found that is very interesting is that many unique/pricey bills are combined with low SN&#039;s which dramatically increases a bill&#039;s cost/FMV.&nbsp; </b>For instance, a Hawaiian Silver Certificate I wanted mostly because of the World War II issue and because of the high PCGS grade also happpened to have a low (&lt; #1,000) SN which really boosted the cost (almost 2x).&nbsp; A few others I wanted also had low SN&#039;s (or stars) which boosted the cost a ton.</p><p><br /></p><p>The increase was on the order of 50-100% for most of the stuff I looked at (stuff costing $30 - $300, on average) so unless I wanted to pay up for the low SN, I had to look elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>OTOH, I decided to pay up for some very low SN (&lt; #100) $1 Silver Certificates because the absolute $$$ involved wasn&#039;t huge (maybe a few hundred $$$).&nbsp; But with a much smaller universe, the increases for $5 and $10 SC&#039;s drove the bills out of my price range.</p><p><br /></p><p>Within the low SN universe, the cost increase for #100-#1,000 is a nice premium but not outlandish unless the bill has other special attributes (the more common the bill, the LESS the premium will be for the low SN).</p><p><br /></p><p>Move under #100, and the premium really moves up to 100% on most stuff as a double-digit SN is attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Move under #10 with a SINGLE digit SN, and it&#039;s whatever the seller can want/ask/get.&nbsp; If it&#039;s #2 or #3 or #4 (have never seen # 00000001), you can easily see a tripling in price for the same bill, same grade, same other features but with a regular SN.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #4d4dff">Straight numbers -- 33333333, 55555555, etc. -- are also appealing to me but I haven&#039;t gotten any as the premiums for these dwarf even the Low SN&#039;s. </span></b> Radars and repeaters and other unique SN&#039;s are not something I really look at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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