Last year I think was my star note year - I find a few 1 my first 2 dollar bill one a new 10 and 20 dollar bills .and pick up two one dollar bill star notes from the 1930 for 5 dollars.
My friend has a 50 dollar and 100 dollar star note - they're not worth much but they're pretty cool; I've never come across any though. I wonder if other countries have this same procedure or something resembling it. I've never heard of no-one else doing this to banknotes. Has anyone got any other countries that use this concept?
I've got a few I got from a friend. I have
2 star 1 dollar bills
1 star 2 dollar bills
4 star 5 dollar bills
2 star 10 dollar bills
2 star 20 dollar bills
1 star 50 dollar bills
2 star 100 dollar bills
Maybe a year ago I found a 1974 Series $100 star note in a till at work (I think I made a post about it too at the time) and usually modern star notes are something I don't bother with (I have one of each just to cover my bases) since I see them quite frequently but $100 star notes are already pretty uncommon, but to find a 1974 series in 2023 was pretty exciting. The best part is, I only paid $100 since all I had to do was swap it from the drawer.
A less impressive but still fun find was a 1999 series $5 star note I found about two weeks ago and only paid face value of it. While my job is painfully mundane, at least I have the perk of having access to such a large amount of circulating coins and currency. I've found countless wheat pennies and pre-60 nickels, maybe $10 face value in silver (dimes and quarters only) including two mercury dimes! Three $2 red seals (two ‘28 series and one ’53) and four silver certs.
I haven't really gotten too much into paper currency yet but I'd like to start expanding more into silver cert and red seal star notes. I'd also like to start collecting those old brown seal Federal Reserve bank notes but those are a bit more expensive.
Every US & World collector seems to have a star note & post their finds on Reddit these days. I remember once I got my “Series of 1957” SC (that's short for “Silver Certificate” & was excited to post it somewhere- likely CCF) a well known US member replied that the BEP issued 100,000,000 of them.
I was a bit shocked: that's 10X one of Bank of Canada's normal prefix runs (10M) & 50X our most common replacement (2-3,000,000).
If you wish to get an idea how common (or uncommon) your Star note is (1981 & later) check this site out. It also has an interesting blurb on the side bar: “Is My Star Note Rare?” which pretty much sums things up (basically below a 640,000 issue & the older the better).
Wow you know i posted this back in 2013 ,11 years ago. Yes they are starting to be very common. But i still save any i come across. This years stack is 2 twenties, 2 tens , 1 five, and 5 ones. I posted this one too when in got in change.
It from the series 1995. It is the lowest number note i have from the US. I remember finding it. I have a note book just for my star notes all in pages for them , most have 40 or 50 of them now.
