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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1872412, member: 11668&quot;]I&#039;m very confused by some of the comments in this thread....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The bills that have to be re-inspected for errors before they can be issued are the 2009 $100&#039;s; none of those have been released yet.&nbsp; This bill is a 2009A $100, the series that was printed after those startup problems were fixed.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a routine cutting error of the sort that can occur occasionally in any series. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t see a &quot;line drawn on&quot; the bill in the OP&#039;s images, or anything else resembling a BEP rejection mark.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even when an error bill does have a rejection mark, that doesn&#039;t mean some BEP employee spirited it out of the BEP.&nbsp; It means the bill was marked for removal, but the final inspector failed to notice both the error *and* the mark, and so the bill was issued into circulation anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t believe there&#039;s ever been a case of a BEP employee sneaking out errors to sell to collectors--and there *certainly* hasn&#039;t been a case of the BEP deliberately allowing employees to buy errors.&nbsp; There was a guy who managed to steal a few sheets of partially printed $100&#039;s a few years back, but he spent them, mostly at casinos where he could put them into machines that wouldn&#039;t notice the bills&#039; lack of serial numbers.&nbsp; And I believe he got a long enough jail sentence that nobody&#039;s going to try it again any time soon.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Series 2009A stars are not scarce; well over 40 million had been printed by the time the new $100&#039;s were first issued.&nbsp; The series is about 1.3% stars so far--actually somewhat higher than a typical series, though far lower than the fiasco that was the Series 2009 $100 (those came in at over 6% stars).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, a serial number ending in 000 is the *last* note of a bundle, not the first.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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