$10 Miscut Star Note, True Binary

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This is a USA dollar, should be in the USA currency Forum.
Also it is not classed a low serial number. A low serial number is 999 or less.
Still a true miscut when you can see part of the adjoining bill

Thanks for the comments. I may have accidentally posted on Canada notes and had the post moved by the moderator to US notes. At any rate I see it in the US notes category now.

As to the binary designation, no doubt only 1's and 0's would be best. But looking around it seems common for serial numbers with only two digits to be called binary. Maybe there is another better designation like "2 digit" if not just 1's and 0's.

So not fitting within a common definition of low serial number. But still a somewhat lower number, starting with 000.

Went to a coin shop and the guy said it was worth $10, his reasoning being that someone could just buy a sheet and make his own miscut. He said there had to be the print properly aligned on one side, and off on the other to be valued. But looking at ebay sales of error bills, there miscuts there have sold for good prices where both sides were miscuts (meaning the print on each side was aligned with the other side, but the cut was similarly wrong in appearance for both sides). But it is a question no doubt for collectors: how do you know it was not a guy at home cutting a sheet to create an apparent error bill?

Well it is a learning experience for me. I am a coin collector, with only a few bills acquired for historical/economic reasons. Never dealt with error bills before.

Cool error.
The last $10 uncut sheets offered by the BEP was series 2009. The last $10 uncut star sheets offered by the BEP was series 2004A. I'm fairly confident the error is genuine and not post-BEP manufactured.

There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Let me help clarify this. The BEP prints replacement notes in sheet form to replace defective sheets, and the BEP also prints replacement notes in packs of 100 to replace defective packs. The replacement Star packs are often sold on ebay. I own $1, $2, $5 and $10 Star packs. So, when that website reports that a note is a sheet note, it means the notes are typically harder to find because they are often only found in pairs hidden in non-star packs. The BEP has been sold out of collector sheets since summer and even when they had $10 sheets, they were series 2009, and non-star note sheets. Once again, I'm confident the error is genuine.

Bobby131313, the "10 types of people" comment is great!