So, I'm still setting notes aside at my bank job to buy and I found one yesterday that was interesting. What I usually do for notes other than 1s, is I write down all the info about them and look them up when I get home. One of the two I wrote down yesterday surprised me, and I want to see if I'm correct in what I'm reading. Anyway, what it is is a Series 2003A $5 star note from the New York District. The serial number is FB00438791*. If my research is correct, these notes were only issued in sheets and therefore this would be a handcut note. When I get to work today, I'm going to look it over closely and see if it was cut well or not (as I didn't think about it when I was there). But, is this correct information about this note?
RichieB.... Nice find....currently traveling and have no books with me. I will be watching this thread for the answer until I can look it up. You just like teasing me with the NY notes dont ya?? LOL RickieB
Well, I looked at it today and it deffinately is an '03A $5 NY star note with that serial number...so I think it came from the uncut sheets...plus, I took a nice crisp $20 out and matched up the sizes and found this note to be slightly narrow, which suggests to me it was cut by a person. I'll try and buy it tomorrow so I can post a pic.
Sorry, but it is just a regular issue star note. Uncut sheets for this denomination and series were only released for FL-A. With that said though, your bill is one of just 640,000 making it a fairly rare circulation find so if it isn't in too bad of condition I would hang on to it.
acutally he is right that note probably is off of a uncut sheet. especially if you compared it to another bill and see a diffrence in size. great find
What they mean when they state "sheets" is that the notes were manufactured up to the cutting step, but not cut. THEN They are used to substitute for defective sheets found in the printing of normal notes prior to the cutting step. During a printing run, they are swapped out immediately prior to the cutting step. All that means is that you won't find any full straps of them.
Sorry, but this note is definately a circulation issue but is still a rare find. This is the source I went to to confirm what I suspected: http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2003aq.html Notice at the top it says the bills on that page are notes that were issued for circulation. Now go to December 2006 and you will see the note asked about on here fits right in with the serial number that was given. Now go here for a listing of notes that were issued as uncut collector sheets: http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/uncut.html Goto $5 2003A and you will see that only FL-A is shown as being produced for uncut collector sheets of this series.
Exactly. What I want to know is, since when does the S&L book indicate which stars are the replacement-sheet printings? (And did they go back and label them in the earlier series too, or just the recent updates?)
wow, and i thought that note in the books, saying sheets after the number of notes printed, was that they were printed as to be sold to collectors. Whats the point of even putting that note in the books if it means somethign else?
I haven't spent much time on the forums lately and I just noticed your post. I'll take a look at the book and I'll see how far back they include the "(sheets)" note for stars and post it later.
