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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bucephalus, post: 2097218, member: 73862&quot;]I&#039;ve sworn an oath to help any worthy brother in distress, so I&#039;m happy to share my opinion. Your question is a matter of personal taste, my Brother. You can grade those that will fetch the highest premium or start with the ones that hold more sentimental value. You also have to take into account that grading costs money to get done and once done <i>can</i> add value to the note, so you may want to grade those that will have the most gains vs cost. Unfortunately the is only gains in your fine collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I like your 1899 1$ Black Eagle, 1923 1$ US Note, 1896 1$ Educational Note and all your National Bank Notes. As a mason, I just love those Educational Notes, their allegorical imagery and artwork is stunning to say the least. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several factors that go into pricing FRN star notes:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>District - there are 12 Federal Bank Districts, each is assigned a letter, but not all will print stars in a given series.<br /> </li> <li>Series - For coins, they are given a stamp for the year they are intended for circulation, so every year gets a new stamped date. But for Notes, the year only changes when there is a redesign in that denomination. This leaves large gaps in series, often years or even decades (ie 1935-1957 for 1$ Silver Certificates are all dated 1935). So the BEP uses Blocks, Districts and Runs to determine where in a series the note was printed. After time they use all the letters and numbers for Block/District/Serial, so they add a letter to the series. (ie series 1935 1$, 1935a through1935h 1$)<br /> </li> <li>Run - For star notes they are printed in runs of 3.2 million printed notes (100,000 sheets of 32 notes). They don&#039;t always finish the Run which leaves rarer Runs of star notes - and star notes are already rare to begin with, making up less than 1% of all printed notes. The most common partial Runs are printed in groups of 320,000 and 640,000, but there are occasionally an odd ball number printed. If there were less than 320,000 printed in a run than it is among the rarer of the rare. If they don&#039;t finish a run the will trash all the unused S/Ns in that run, so Run 2 will always start at S/N 03200001* no matter how many notes were printed in Run 1.<br /> </li> <li>S/N - This determines in which Run the star note was printed. Some collectors like fancy S/Ns and will pay a higher premium, for example: low serial numbers, birth years, ladders, radars, repeaters, repeaters, binary, combinations, and mathematical serial numbers.</li> </ul><p> <ol> <li>Low serials - the more Zeros on the left the better, starting with a minimal of 4.</li> <li>Birth years - if it is a low, 4 digit S/N that starts with 19xx or or 20xx, it sells like hotcakes (ie 00001984* will sell to any one born in 1984). Other runs offer birth year and birth date combinations, but are naturally more selective personally to the buyer, limiting potential interest. (ie 09191984* will only sell to someone born Sept 19, 1984).<br /> </li> <li>Ladders - ascending or descending numbers (ie 01234567*, 98765432*, 10120123*, etc.)</li> <li>RadaR - is a palindrome. These are S/N that read the same forward as backwards. (ie 98899889* or 55022055*)<br /> </li> <li>Repeaters - S/Ns with repeating numbers (ie 88888888* or 80880888*)</li> <li>Repeaters - lol</li> <li>Binary - a Language based on 2 choices, on/off; true/false; or 1/0. One digit is a bit, there are 8 bits to a byte. A sequence of 8 bits are read Right to Left. Each bit in the sequence represents an increasing (doubling) value: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. (ie 01100101 = 1+0+4+0+0+32+64+0 = 101). Some collectors like S/Ns that are thus comprised of zeros and ones.</li> <li>Combinations - These are a combination of the previous fancy S/Ns (ie 12344321* is a RadaR, Ladder note; 19841984* is a Repeating, Birth year note; 11011011* is a Repeating, RadaR, Binary note; 10110111* is a Repeating, Ladder, Binary note)</li> <li>Mathematical - these are S/Ns that are also famous math formulas or number sequences (ie 31415926* = Pi; 11235813* = Fibonacci; or 39416525* = (aª + bª&nbsp; = cª) = Pythagorean)</li> </ol><p> <ul> <li>Quality - Very subjective. Ranges from Good - Superb Gem Uncirculated. Assuming the printing and cutting was fine for the star note, you don&#039;t want to see folds, creases, tears, graffiti or stains. If it is has a couple folds or creases, then you&#039;ll want the paper to still be crisp and there be no damage to the ink. </li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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