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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1387471, member: 11668&quot;]Yeah, but if they&#039;re consecutive then you probably don&#039;t need to look at them all in order to find the good ones. The starting serial of each 1000-note bundle should be listed on the bundle label, if the notes are still in the original BEP packaging when they get to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Things to watch for:</p><p><br /></p><p>* Radar (palindrome) serial numbers: 82655628 for example. These occur once in 10,000 bills on average, so you&#039;d expect to get several in your shipment of 70,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Repeater serial numbers: 82658265 for example. Also one in 10,000 bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Binary serial numbers, with only two different digits: 82282888 for example. About one in 8750 bills, but they come in clumps--if you get a range of serial numbers that all start with 826xxxxx, then obviously it won&#039;t have any binaries in it, but if they start with 822xxxxx then you might find lots of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Five or more in a row: 82655555, or 82666665, or 88888265 (and if you get that last one then you&#039;ll have several whole straps of pretty neat numbers!). Something like one in 3000 bills, so you&#039;ll likely find plenty of these. Actually, five-in-a-row would probably have only marginal collector value; six or more in a row is where the real interest would start.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Rarer fancy serials, like solids (88888888) and ladders (87654321). Even with 70,000 bills to look through, you probably won&#039;t find anything this good. And of course, if you happen to get a shrink-wrapped bundle that starts with serial 00000001, then you just won the lottery.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Star straps: You mentioned star notes, but be aware that most stars come in the form of full star straps, with distinctive candy-striped wrappers. You can identify these before you even take the shrink-wrap off....</p><p><br /></p><p>* Rollover pairs: Whenever the serial numbering reaches xxxx9999 and xxxx0000, those two notes are nearly always replaced by stars--and these stars are nearly always from short runs, so they can have higher collector value than the stars from the full straps mentioned above. In a shipment of 70,000 bills, you ought to find several pairs like this. (In the unlikely event that the xxxx9999 and xxxx0000 bills are actually present, *not* replaced by stars, then those will also have significant collector value.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are probably more that I&#039;m forgetting just now, but that list is a good start anyway.... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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