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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 455584, member: 11668&quot;]The first star notes were printed in 1910--but those were Series 1899 $1 silvers, because that series was still in production in 1910 (indeed, until 1923).</p><p><br /></p><p>I *think* that the earliest series date appearing on a star note is 1880, on some $20 USNs.&nbsp; Those would&#039;ve been printed in the late nineteen-teens, since they&#039;ve got Teehee-Burke signatures.</p><p><br /></p><p>There might&#039;ve been an even earlier date that I missed, though--some of the large-size notes kept the same series date for quite a few decades, making it a bit difficult to keep track.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Rickie already noted, there were three large-size series that used a solid star as the suffix character on *all* notes: the 1869 USNs, and the 1890 and 1891 CNs.&nbsp; These are not &quot;star notes&quot;.&nbsp; All large-size star replacement notes use a hollow-center star, not a solid star.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bit about the 100,000,000th note is anachronistic in this thread: During the large-size era, the 100,000,000th note actually had serial number 100000000, with nine digits.&nbsp; Some of the earliest small-size notes used this number too....&nbsp; It had to be stamped on the note by hand, since the automatic numbering equipment didn&#039;t have enough digits to print it.&nbsp; The automatic numbering just printed 00000000, and that note had to be pulled and replaced by the hand-prepared 100000000.&nbsp; Sometime in the 1930s the BEP decided that it wasn&#039;t worth the trouble, so they just declared the 00000000 note to be an &quot;error&quot;, and started replacing it by a star note just like they&#039;d do for any other error.&nbsp; (And since 1977, the serial numbering in each block doesn&#039;t go all the way to 99999999 anyway, so there&#039;s no longer any issue of what to do for the 100,000,000th note.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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