Found a couple of stars today at work, one is a 2006 B the other a 1963A G series. I found that the 2006 is a regular full run but I cannot find any info on the run size for the 63A, does anyone happen to know or have a resource? Here is the serial: G13988003*, the bill has definitely seen better days, probably VG-Fine. Thanks John
Not sure what denomination you have, but if it's a $1 it shoudl be a run of 19,840,000 star notes. The information you want can be found here: http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f1963_s.html Other denominations have a link at top.
yes it is a $1, wow that's a huge run. Were the older runs much larger or are short runs just infrequent? I found several 2006 1s and their runs were 3.2m which I thought was the standard.
We've got some confusion here between the size of an individual print run and the total number of stars printed for the district. Back in the '60s, the standard run size was 640,000 notes (20,000 sheets). This note, 1963A $1 G13988003*, is from run 22 of the G..* block, which was a full run of 640,000. There were a total of 51,360,000 G..* notes printed in the 1963A $1's, the largest star printage ever for a single series/district/denomination combo in the FRNs; this total represents an incredible eighty-two runs of star notes for the Chicago district. Since the error rates were higher back then and the star runs were smaller, there were typically many more star runs per series than is common today. As a result, partial runs were uncommon, since even a full run didn't last too long at the BEP. Of those 82 star runs in the 1963A $1 G..* block, all but seven were full runs of 640,000. Needless to say, nobody much collects these older stars by print run--the 1963A $1 series alone would require 551 star notes for a complete print run collection! Compare that to maybe a couple dozen or so for most of the recent series.... (Oh, and the 19,840,000 figure that Dave quoted appears to be for Series 1963 proper, rather than 1963A.)
oops! I guess I should've checked that better. That is a massive nimber for even a total number of runs. Makes one wonder what happened to warrant all those replacements. Perhaps a fire in a Federal Reserve building or something.
