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04/15/2014 05:41 am
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Hi,
Good is a bad condition.
We need pics.
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New Member
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Still learning how to use this thing, please excuse me if I'm rusty, I will get the hang of things.
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Rest in Peace
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Keep reading and following along to learn.  Edited by bpoc1
04/15/2014 10:21 am
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 to the community. The value on these kinds of notes is all over the place and depends largely on condition. The 1953A was a very common note. Yours is a star note, the star designates that it was a replacement note. When a note is damaged or misprinted, the treasury cannot just print another with the same serial number, there has to be an accounting for the original note that was destroyed and the replacement note with the same serial sequence. Hence the star. There there are some who value star notes and others who just consider them "replacements" for errors. Again value has much to do with condition. Yours is well circulated and has fold marks, but (from your picture of only the front) has no obvious tears or stains. Better pictures of both sides would be better. 1953A star notes are common, but still should be worth @$200 |
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The BEP certainly can reprint the same serial number as a replacement and did so for small size Nationals and WWII War Bonds. But with the way that the BEP prints notes, it is more efficient to insert a pre-printed sheet of notes than to reprint the same serial numbers.
The reason for the star is to alert the first recipient of a pack of notes why some of the notes may be out of sequence. That is what the BEP band on a new pack indicates.
Other printers use the make-up system of re-printing the same serial numbers instead of using replacements. And others just insert different serials or blocks without identifying them as replacements.
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Thanks for that site! I've wondered about the value of a few of my old notes....and now I know (sigh).
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I have a $10 silver certificate 1953A with a star in the serial number, in good condition, how much could it be worth? Need help. The serial number is ☆00599638A
Posted 04/15/2014 05:59 am
