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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 947281, member: 11668"]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.)[/QUOTE]