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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 3696600, member: 73489&quot;]I&#039;m not into collecting Star Notes, but to each his own.&nbsp; I applaud whatever someone likes to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that unless a Star Note is accompanied by other scarcity factors for a particular bill, <b><span style="color: #ff0000">I&#039;m not sure of the long-term investment value.</span></b>&nbsp; If collecting as a whole is seeing fewer coin/bill collectors (esp. bill collectors) it might pay to concentrate on the stuff with time-tested value and with lots of scarcity such as:</p><ul> <li>Rare Silver Certficates (with or without stars) in high quality and/or with unique/low SN&#039;s.</li> <li>Gold Certificates</li> <li>Super-high rated notes for otherwise common issues that at least give a bit of uniqueness to the bill.</li> <li>Old (pre-modern) currency and stuff going back to the 1700&#039;s and 1800&#039;s.</li> </ul><p>I just think that in the aggregate there are how many star notes -- tens of thousands ?&nbsp; hundreds of thousands ?&nbsp; millions ? -- that supply overwhelms demand.&nbsp; And many are interchangeable from a collectors POV.</p><p><br /></p><p>OTOH, if you buy a PMG 65 $50 Gold Certificate, there aren&#039;t that many others like it.&nbsp; Maybe SN or Batch Number or Fed District variations....maybe another denomination or higher/lower grade...but the universe is much smaller.</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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