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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1909114, member: 11668&quot;]Yes, those are frequently mistaken for star replacement notes.&nbsp; Sometimes dealers even advertise them as such--one hopes this is done out of ignorance rather than as a deliberate deception.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For the record: All Series 1869 USNs and all Series 1890 and 1891 Treasury/Coin Notes have this solid star as the serial suffix.&nbsp; The use of a star to designate replacement notes didn&#039;t come along until 1910 (though of course it occurs on many notes with series dates before 1910, since some series remained in production for many years).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A wide variety of symbols occurred as serial suffixes (and occasionally prefixes) on large-size notes--see <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/symbols.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/symbols.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> for more information on these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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