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New Member
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When talking about US Paper Currency, what is a star?
Thanks,
Aaron
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A star is a replacement note for a batch. For example, if 50 notes in a batch is discovered to have major errors, those notes are shredded and replaced with notes with the same number but with a star at the end. This way, the people at the BEP won't have to hand-reset the numbering machines with the old letters for the original serial.
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New Member
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Ahh I see, thank you. Do you have a photo of one?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Standby...  Edited by wd1040
06/24/2009 12:13 am
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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I have always thought that star notes where replacements for mutilated banknotes (dirty, over circulated and damaged notes).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Does Bryan save every star note he sees? That's quite an impressive collection!
And wow! 10 consecutive $10 star notes!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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yeah I usually save every star and every consecutive note I find in circulation. Its been awhile since I updated that page so I have quite a few more that's not included in these pictures
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I saw a note once with the face of the late Michael Jackson on it. Would that be a star note ?  |
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United States
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"When an imperfect note is detected during the manufacturing process after the serial number has been overprinted, it must be replaced with a new note. A "star" note is used to replace the imperfect note. Reusing that exact serial number to replace the imperfect note is costly and time consuming. The "star" note has its own special serial number followed by a star in place of a suffix letter.
The serial number of the imperfect note that was removed is not used again in the same numbering sequence."
Directly from the BEP
InkSmear
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A star is a replacement note for a batch. For example, if 50 notes in a batch is discovered to have major errors, those notes are shredded and replaced with notes with the same number but with a star at the end. This way, the people at the BEP won't have to hand-reset the numbering machines with the old letters for the original serial. Actually, they don't use the same number. They print up a batch of star notes to have on hand, then use them as they need them. Actually they can even be from a different FRB, or even a different series. |
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United States
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This thread prompted me to immediately empty my wallet and begin searching... obviously I had no luck.
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Actually, they don't use the same number. They print up a batch of star notes to have on hand, then use them as they need them. Actually they can even be from a different FRB, or even a different series. ohh... so that's why on the stack wrapper it says "missing notes are substituted with a star." Well, how do people have entire stacks of star notes? |
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