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OK Noost, what is a "mini" radar?

 

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Picked up my first stack of $1s this weekend and found 3 star notes and one bill with no repeat numbers in the serial number. I checked on uspapermoney.info to find the rarity of the star notes and they were all in a 3.2 million run. I do have two questions.

First, should I hold onto the star notes? They are cool, and I was surprised to find 3, but what are they worth and do they have any potential to increase in value?

Should i hold onto the interesting serial number bills? Do any of them have value, and what are the more common serial numbers to search for? I understand radar and repeaters, but what are laddars?

 

Has a leading or trailing 0.
0-0420240

 

Beef
The stars probably are not worth anything over face, but I would keep them since they are only ones. Also a ladder is when the numbers go in order such as 01234567 or 98765432. EBay has a nice beginners guide to fancy bank notes.
http://reviews.ebay.com/Fancy-Bank-Notes-10-Most-Common-Categories_W0QQugidZ10000000001758931

 

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for.

 

searched 2 straps of $1 at lunch, one star note and one with

K83628361D, so close I assume that is not really worth keeping?

 

$400 in $2 yielded a 1976 S/N B99688928B from a sheet and a 1976 L00946966* . Also found a 1995 S/N F F 50504050 B

 

The '76 B99688928B ....Keeper b/c high number?

 

Someone cut it from a collectors sheet and spent it.

 

Ah right, didn't consider that.

 

I've been searching $100 in ones every week for the past month. Nothing to keep so far.

 

Not even star notes, or you don't keep them?

 

How do you know it was cut from a sheet Noost?

 

Not a single star. In fact nothing older than 2003 Series.

 

So you have done 4 straps of $100s and not found a star? At least for 2006 series the star notes have a rate of 0.32%, so you should expect one note in about every $300 searched on average. If you have searched 4 and not found one keep trying. If you have searched $1000 and still not found one then find a different bank.

 

Yep, across $16K searched so far, 1/300 is about my avg and it's been holding pretty steady. BUT....this includes a time when I found 3 stars in just 4 bills from a strap....and currently I've gone through about $800 without a single star.... back to the averages.

 

I get about 1/200 as an average for stars. Sometimes more sometimes less, but thats my average.

 

So I searched $300 today and found a star note which i have a question on. The bill is a 2003A K0011XXXX. I checked on uspapermoney.info and see that this bill is from a run of 640,000, but there is another K star run for 2003A with a print of 640,000. So there are a total of 1.28 million 2003A K star notes, but mine is from a small run. Is there any premium for these types of bill in general, what about circulated vs. uncirculated condition?

 

The 1950-A came from a run of 5,544,000 and 10,240,000 for the 1963-A

 

Had a great day, search $130 in ones and found a 1963a L 35XXXXXX star note and a 2006 K 77336688 note.

The 63a star is beat up, but no rips or anything, any sense on the value?