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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1932554, member: 11668&quot;]Not quite.&nbsp; Some stars are used in sheet form as you describe; other stars are cut and strapped and used as replacement packs.&nbsp; So if a defective note is caught prior to cutting, then the whole sheet is replaced by a sheet of stars; if a defective note is caught after cutting and strapping, then the whole pack is replaced by a pack of stars.&nbsp; (In the old days, they&#039;d replace just the individual bad note, but now they save time by replacing the whole pack.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the past few decades, each run of star notes has been used for *either* replacement sheets or replacement packs--not both from the same run.&nbsp; The runs used as replacement sheets wind up being scarcer in the collector market, because nobody&#039;s got 100 consecutive notes to sell.&nbsp; This is one reason why certain stars are scarcer than you&#039;d expect based on the number printed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If star notes are left over at the end of a series, they&#039;re not issued &quot;on their own&quot;; they&#039;re used as replacements during printing of the next series (so it&#039;s perfectly normal to find a pack of 2013 $5&#039;s with a 2009 $5 star substituted into it).&nbsp; On the other hand, in case of a redesign, any leftover old-design star notes *would* be destroyed (or, lately, sometimes turned into a BEP collector product).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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