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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1991715, member: 11668"]For the 1974 $10, there were 1,760,000 stars printed for Dallas (scroll all the way down <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f1974_d.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f1974_d.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Those were printed as three runs (two full runs of 640,000 each, then a gap, then a partial run of 480,000). But you don't find a lot of collectors who pay attention to print runs on notes this far back. In the old days, the standard run size was shorter, and the error rates were higher so they used more star notes. Therefore, they printed a lot more star runs back then. The 1974 $10 had a total of 49 star runs, which is an inconveniently large number for a collection. These days, a typical $10 series has maybe half a dozen star runs--much more manageable to collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1991715, member: 11668"]For the 1974 $10, there were 1,760,000 stars printed for Dallas (scroll all the way down [URL='http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f1974_d.html']this page[/URL]). Those were printed as three runs (two full runs of 640,000 each, then a gap, then a partial run of 480,000). But you don't find a lot of collectors who pay attention to print runs on notes this far back. In the old days, the standard run size was shorter, and the error rates were higher so they used more star notes. Therefore, they printed a lot more star runs back then. The 1974 $10 had a total of 49 star runs, which is an inconveniently large number for a collection. These days, a typical $10 series has maybe half a dozen star runs--much more manageable to collect.[/QUOTE]
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