Star Note Find Rates

Bvalania
I make sure the tellers do not give me back my searched stacks and I also have started ordering from 3 diff banks. At one bank the teller ships out all incoming $1 notes but keeps the local deposits for me. I am amazed at the number of notes the banks run through on a daily basis. One bank last week had 10K in recycled fed straps and the next day they only had 500 left.

Mon to Wed seem to be the best search days for me. I think this has to do with the weekend sales / traffic trends etc.

Other than the Barr star from last night the oldest one I have is a 99. I would like to find a few earlier ones.

Pardon me, I too run into 2003A the most. I had miss typed as 2003.

Peace

FWIW, If you look at the BEP data reports you will notice that higher denomination stars are being printed more often than $1 bill (page back there is discussion about $100 note). Also I found it interesting that prior to 95 (I think) they were printing close 100 mil $1 stars and now they are printing around 30 mil $1 stars annually. This MAY bode well for the $1 stars down the road. Time will tell.

Peace

I guess my earlier post about 1 * in 500 notes searched is about average. By the way, it was so tattered I kicked it back into the wild for others to find.

I would hang onto to the barr note. Although these were hoarded back in the day it's an old note. As per the stars it's your choice.
Peace

The stars value is based on the number of notes printed per run and hopefully someone with more knowledge chimes in and answers your question.

As per me I hang onto anything that is old and or is in good condition.

Peace

Just got to the bank and ask for stacks of $1s. Or if you have a good relation with a bank, you might be able to ask them to look their notes for you.

The Barr note is a $1 issued during Joseph Barr's 30 or so day term as the Sec of the Treas. Because these notes were issued for only a short time and all of them were $1s which didn't have a long life expectancy, most Barr notes are rare.

... from Wikipedia... pretty much sums it up




And a pic of a Barr note stack

just wondering for those of you that collect stars, old notes, etc, do any of you try and sell them on ebay or have had any luck selling them period? is a decent return on investment so to speak. i.e. roll searching for halves = silver?

Well got lucky and found these in un circulated bricks (Last 2003a print) with a run of 608K

C 0642 8607* replaces D4829 9999 C
C 0642 8608* replaces D4830 0000 C

C 0642 8609* replaces D4830 1851 C

C 0642 8603* replaces D4830 3112 C

Siuol/ John, Do you have any thoughts on why the skip in SN (04, 05 and 06) for the stars I ran into? The bricks went in order.

However, she still has 4829 7 and 4829 8 (maybe 5 and 6 also) which I can get to only on Friday as she is off tomorrow.

bvalania, I not sure if you are still around here but in April the BEP printed the first run of 2009 $1 stars.

Peace