Hello collectors and happy holidays! I am curious about a dollar bill I received. It has a red star that sits on top of the green seal. I have never seen this on any other dollar bill ever. Take a look at the photos and tell me your thoughts. Either it's a rare find or you tell me.
I suspect someone rubber-stamped it after receiving it in circulation. Here's a thread with a similar find: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/red-star-pre-printed-on-1-bill.351923/ Unless someone can think of a way that a stamp like that would be applied at the time of printing, I think it's just damage. But good eye for spotting it!
That red star was not put there by the BEP. It was done after being in circulation and a collector of notes would call it damage.
I agree that the star stamp happened after the note left the BEP, so it's altered, rather than an error. And thus not really worth more that face value. It's interesting, though, and I wonder why it was put on there, upside-down like that, so tidily atop the Treasury seal.
When I was a kid, I would take a yellow highlighter and fill in the "1" in the upper right corner, so I could tell if I ever got the same bill back in change (of course I never did ). Lots people do weird stuff to dollar bills for no apparent reason. Like little me
