2013 One Dollar Bill With Serial Number In The Range Of Star Notes, But Not A Star Note

Yes, it is a normal bill. There serial numbers on a star notes are serial numbers for that batch of star notes. The serial number in your photo is one of many serial numbers for serail numbers that start with B and end with D. It is a separate batch of bills that has nothing to do with a batch of star notes.

Each prefix could have the same numbers so a star note
with that number could have replaced the sufix C for
example.Thats why they use different prefixes as there
are only so many numbers they can use.



The ending letter refers to the district.
The first letter refers to the series.

JimmyD:



this isn't correct at all, at least for for $1 bills. if a bill has a 10-digit serial (letter, 8 numbers, letter), the first letter is the FRB district, as indicated by the FRB seal on the left with the same letter. the final letter is the block letter, which basically indicates how many times serial numbers 00000001-96000000 (or 99200000 for $50s and $100s) have been printed for a district in a series. for 11-digit serial numbers (series 1996 and later, $5s and up), the first letter does indicate the series, then the second is the district, and the last letter is still of course the block letter.

khnkdn:



you don't. star notes are printed up to 3.2 million at a time, and if a sheet of non-star bills is inspected and determined to be sufficiently defective, it's removed and replaced with a sheet of star notes. I don't know the exact process, but I would have to think they basically just take the top sheet of stars off the pile and put it where the defective sheet was found. the serial numbers of the defective and star notes will not necessarily correspond at all.




you probably saw that I mentioned the block (ending) letter in my response to JimmyD, but yes, what you've said here is essentially correct.