Rarity Of Star Notes In Straps Bundles Bricks Or Cash Packs?

Really... at a bank branch ? I was sure they looked for errors before the UNC bills are sent to banks. I mean, in Canada, according to the information I gathered, if I go to my local branch and order straps of notes, I will not find error notes but replacement notes with a special serial, if I'm lucky.

I think they only look for obvious errors and check only some notes. They look at them in 32 notes per sheet, before they are cut. They might do some checking after cut/wrapped, but I doubt it. There are still error notes being found, so they don't do that good of a job in the US.

I know when I was at the BEP in DC, they would take a large stack of sheets of 32 notes and look them over, but not each note.

There are billions of notes printed each year, so no way could they look over all of them. There are assumptions made, that if a few look good, then the rest do.

Then only a lucky few would get their hands on them, and they would have all the monopoly =/ Is that right ?





Agreed, appears they don't do such a good job ^^

I am not sure that all of you understand how star notes are printed and used by the USBEP.

When the BEP prints a run of notes, the star notes are printed in sheet form first. The general rule had been that the star run would be 10% of the amount to be printed. If they were going to print 6,400,000 notes, they would first print 640,000 star notes (20,000 sheets).

When a defective note is found on a sheet, the entire sheet is replaced with a sheet of star notes and the original sheet is destroyed. This is how star notes appear in packs of regular notes. If there were a problem like a stuck digit or an offset transfer that would affect multiple sheets in a row it is possible that many star notes would appear in a single pack.

When the print run is completed any unused sheets of stars are packaged up into packs of 100 notes. This is where packs of star notes come from.

If a defect is found after the notes are cut, the entire pack is replaced with a pack of star notes.

At one time, star notes came from the same Fed district as the regular run notes but not so anymore. In other words, you may find Atlanta stars in a fresh pack of New York notes.

How do they know what notes will be replaced after printing the star notes first? Don't they have to know the serial #s to replace first and then print the star notes?

Plus what if a run has no problems. They just printed a lot of sheets used for replacing and now they don't need them. Sounds quite wasteful and expensive.




I'm not doubting you, but it just sounds strange and very time consuming that if one sheet out of thousands was defective, to go back and just replace that single sheet and then put it in the proper place in the stack.

And then the stack goes into cutting and wrapping.

I think there is something missing in the order you have stated how things happen.

Now that makes sense. I thought the serial # had to be the same, but I found it on the BEP site and they say "exactly like the sheets they replace", but they must have it wrong on their site then? Since the serial #s aren't the same?




Go here and search on the word, star. It is about three quarters down the page:
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurre...process.html

After reading it 3 times, I guess the serial # isn't part of the design then.

Thanks for your patience on explaining it. Kind of late in the day and my brain has already left the building.