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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 426122, member: 11668&quot;]It&#039;s not a question of *when*; it depends on what type of currency you&#039;re looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>When star notes were first introduced in 1910, the star went at the beginning of the serial number.&nbsp; But that didn&#039;t work on Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes (introduced in 1914 and 1915 respectively), because in those cases the first letter of the serial *means* something--it identifies which Fed district issued the note.&nbsp; So the FRNs and FRBNs got the star at the end of the serial instead, but all the other types continued to have it at the beginning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, since 1971 the FRNs are the only type of currency printed, so nowadays you only ever see stars at the end....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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