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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 3224865, member: 11668"]Because often a single district will have lots of runs printed. The "total printed" is just all the runs added together.</p><p><br /></p><p>To take a random example, here are the print runs for the 2009 $1 B..*:</p><p><br /></p><p>Run 1 : B00000001* - B01280000* : 1,280,000 notes</p><p>Run 2 : B03200001* - B03840000* : 640,000 notes</p><p>Run 3 : B06400001* - B06432000* : 32,000 notes</p><p>Run 4 : B09600001* - B12800000* : 3,200,000 notes</p><p>Run 5 : B12800001* - B13440000* : 640,000 notes</p><p>Run 6 : B16000001* - B19200000* : 3,200,000 notes</p><p>Total printed: 8,992,000 notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the 2009 $1 B..* is a pretty common star overall, with almost 9 million printed. But run 3 is extremely scarce, being one of the shortest star runs printed in decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody who collects stars by district will just get one B..* note from one of the large runs and be done with it. But somebody who collects by run will have to find six B..* notes, one from each run, and will probably have to pay quite a bit for the run 3 note.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Of course I'm leaving out lots of complications here. Run 1 was printed at Fort Worth and the other five runs at Washington, so some collectors will want a run 1 note even if they're not trying to collect every run. And run 5 is unaccountably scarcer than its serial range would indicate. But you get the basic idea.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the OP's original question:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A full run of stars is 3.2 million notes, so anything printed in that quantity is relatively common, as stars go. A low run size would be anything that's a small fraction of 3.2 million; a run of 320,000 is definitely small, and 640,000 is at least smallish. A low Total Printed would be a total that includes just a few short runs (or even just one) and no full-size runs. So if the Total Printed is over 3.2 million, it isn't a low total.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, the 2009 $1 G..* had two runs printed, but they were each just 640,000 notes. The total printed is 1,280,000, which makes this a slightly tougher star. But the 2009 $1 H..* had just one run printed, and it was just 320,000 notes; since the total for the district is just 320,000 notes, and every district collector needs one (not just run collectors), this is a star that's very much worth saving![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 3224865, member: 11668"]Because often a single district will have lots of runs printed. The "total printed" is just all the runs added together. To take a random example, here are the print runs for the 2009 $1 B..*: Run 1 : B00000001* - B01280000* : 1,280,000 notes Run 2 : B03200001* - B03840000* : 640,000 notes Run 3 : B06400001* - B06432000* : 32,000 notes Run 4 : B09600001* - B12800000* : 3,200,000 notes Run 5 : B12800001* - B13440000* : 640,000 notes Run 6 : B16000001* - B19200000* : 3,200,000 notes Total printed: 8,992,000 notes. So the 2009 $1 B..* is a pretty common star overall, with almost 9 million printed. But run 3 is extremely scarce, being one of the shortest star runs printed in decades. Somebody who collects stars by district will just get one B..* note from one of the large runs and be done with it. But somebody who collects by run will have to find six B..* notes, one from each run, and will probably have to pay quite a bit for the run 3 note. (Of course I'm leaving out lots of complications here. Run 1 was printed at Fort Worth and the other five runs at Washington, so some collectors will want a run 1 note even if they're not trying to collect every run. And run 5 is unaccountably scarcer than its serial range would indicate. But you get the basic idea.) Back to the OP's original question: A full run of stars is 3.2 million notes, so anything printed in that quantity is relatively common, as stars go. A low run size would be anything that's a small fraction of 3.2 million; a run of 320,000 is definitely small, and 640,000 is at least smallish. A low Total Printed would be a total that includes just a few short runs (or even just one) and no full-size runs. So if the Total Printed is over 3.2 million, it isn't a low total. For example, the 2009 $1 G..* had two runs printed, but they were each just 640,000 notes. The total printed is 1,280,000, which makes this a slightly tougher star. But the 2009 $1 H..* had just one run printed, and it was just 320,000 notes; since the total for the district is just 320,000 notes, and every district collector needs one (not just run collectors), this is a star that's very much worth saving![/QUOTE]
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