Strap Of 5, S With Four Leading 0, S

It's probably going to depend more on what the other four digits are. Tell us about any interesting combos (four solids, consecutive pairs, etc).

Please give us the star note serials, including prefix letters.

Don't see it. Maybe 00006969 has an outside chance.

i cant find where the pm,s are at

Thank you so much Greg.

These two low run (320,000) sheet replacement star notes arrived today. Printed in July 2016 (Washington DC) these normally show up in pairs in a pack of non-star notes. For some reason, the low print run stars with a 000 start are a whole lot easier to find than these high serial numbered stars. Gem centering and pack fresh.....I'm a happy camper.

Great question Mr.Frog

The following was written by Joe Farrenkopf and appears in Paper Money magazine, May/June 2017 edition.

In the early 1970's, the BEP implemented its COPE system for overprinting serial numbers on currency sheets. Prior to COPE, serial numbers were applied to full 32-subject sheets before those sheets were cut into individual notes. With COPE, 32-subject sheets without serial numbers are trimmed and cut in half lengthwise, creating two unserialed 16-subject sheets. Those half sheets are stacked into two piles of 10,000, and then serial numbers are applied to the half-sheets before being cut into individual notes. At every stage of the printing process, currency sheets are routinely inspected several times to ensure that printing requirements are accurate. Certain sheets in every production run are known internally at the BEP as "reader sheets" and are regularly pulled out of production for inspection. A reader sheet may be returned to the stack, or more commonly it will be replaced with a sheet from a previously serialed sheet-replacement star run. Reader sheets that are routinely replaced with star sheets include the first two sheets from every stack of 10,000 half-sheets (i.e., those whose serials end in 0000 and 9999, often referred to as "rollover" sheets by collectors), as well as the second-to-last half-sheets of the completed production run (i.e.,sheets with serial numbers 00000002, 03200002, 06400002, etc.) The BEP implemented the routine replacement of the 0000/9999 reader sheets in order to reduce the number of defective notes that were periodically created at the start of the overprinting of each stack of 10,000 half-sheets. That routine is the reason that notes whose serial numbers end in 0000 and 9999 are generally not found in circulation.


Hope this helps.....sorry it's so lengthy

It appears I have thoroughly hijacked this thread....I apologize to the OP (Greg)