Currancy??

granpagraf

Does anyone out there know any thing about U.S. currancy?
I have a new $50.00 bill with a small star after both serial numbers. I've never seen a bill with a small star after the numbers!
Could this be a good bill to hang on to?? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
granpagraf

Spiffy469

try the currency forum

Jeff

lordmarcovan

While I am no currency guru, I can tell you that a "star" note is a replacement note. Y'see, the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing) has to account for the serial number of a note that is damaged or destroyed during printing, so they issue a replacement note with that serial number, and put the star there to indicate it's a replacement note.

Star notes are usually worth a small premium. For a current issue like your fifty, though, it probably has to be in crisp Uncirculated condition to be worth a premium (and even then, it's probably only worth something like $55, but I dunno).

I would hang on to it if you don't have any great need to spend it. (I got a series 1950 $100 Star note once, but, hey, we needed groceries and the bills were due, and a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks, if you knowhutimean. It was a circulated bill, too, and not worth a whole lot more than face value, as I recall.)

Conder101

Close LM, xcept that the serial number on the star note does not match that of the missing note. (At least your answer semed to imply that it did.) The star note acts as a "space filler" to maintain the runs of serial numbers. If a brick is supposed to have 4000 notes stating with 1 and ending with 4000 but has say 50 star notes in the brick it will still start and end with the proper numbers.

lordmarcovan

Aha.

Didn't know that.

dizzyfoxx

I recently had a 1882 $20 Gold note. I think the gold notes are but I prefer the coins