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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2643181, member: 11668"]It's varied enormously over the years--the star rate tends to spike every time the BEP adopts new printing technology, and then slowly drift downward as they get good at doing things the new way. In recent years, star rates between 0.3% and 0.5% have been usual, but the new 50-subject $1's have been running about 1.3%, and the first series of Kodachrome $100's was over 6%. The all-time high seems to have come with the introduction of dry printing in the '50s; the 1957 $1's were 11% stars, and it appears that the first couple blocks of that series approached 30% stars.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, even at the best of times, we'd expect some 300,000 stars in a regular block; and at some times there'd be several million. So unless you adopt a *very* loose definition of fancy serial numbers, fancy serial numbers are a good bit scarcer than stars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2643181, member: 11668"]It's varied enormously over the years--the star rate tends to spike every time the BEP adopts new printing technology, and then slowly drift downward as they get good at doing things the new way. In recent years, star rates between 0.3% and 0.5% have been usual, but the new 50-subject $1's have been running about 1.3%, and the first series of Kodachrome $100's was over 6%. The all-time high seems to have come with the introduction of dry printing in the '50s; the 1957 $1's were 11% stars, and it appears that the first couple blocks of that series approached 30% stars. In any case, even at the best of times, we'd expect some 300,000 stars in a regular block; and at some times there'd be several million. So unless you adopt a *very* loose definition of fancy serial numbers, fancy serial numbers are a good bit scarcer than stars.[/QUOTE]
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