Matching Serial Star Note And Regular Note

Star Notes have their own completely separate numbering system. When those were printed, typically one sheet of stars replaced one sheet of original notes.

Nowadays, the BEP mostly discards entire straps with errors they catch and replace them with entire star note straps. (At least in the Ones department.)

I've noticed the BEP pulls the last two notes of a rollover strap ending in 99999 and replaces with two star notes on Twos and larger denominations.

And the BEP uses random star notes to replace errors. If an error is a H note from St. Louis, it's replaced with anything else they hav on hand, A, B, C, D, etc...

Here's my favorite reference site: http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/

Good input from everybody here on an issue discussed often in the past.

As stated, stars have their own numbering system, so it is possible to have a star and non-star with the same S/N.

I'm sure this question will come up endlessly in the future.