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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2616996, member: 11668&quot;]That&#039;s what I thought too, but apparently that&#039;s exactly the sort of thing we&#039;re going to be getting.&nbsp; It already works that way in some countries, notably Canada.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the debacle with the recent $100 printings caused those notes to have to be re-inspected before they could be issued, the Fed was worried that the resulting straps of non-sequential new currency would cause counterfeiting worries or other forms of confusion.&nbsp; But apparently it wasn&#039;t a problem.&nbsp; So they&#039;ve decided that, if it&#039;ll reduce production costs, they&#039;re fine with non-sequential serials in new straps.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the BEP&#039;s next generation of overprinting equipment won&#039;t use star notes; it&#039;ll just pull out defective notes and replace them with nothing.&nbsp; Of course, it&#039;ll be a while before they acquire any of that new equipment and get it on line, and it&#039;ll be even longer before *all* of the current overprinting presses are phased out.&nbsp; So star notes will be with us for years yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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