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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 718526, member: 11668&quot;]It&#039;s very possible that your book doesn&#039;t have it.&nbsp; The BEP tends to print extra runs of old-series stars after switching to each new series (that&#039;s how they get the last bits of life out of the old printing plates), and the books are annoyingly spotty about going back and adding these runs to their data on the previous series.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the 2003A $5&#039;s, stars were printed for New York (640,000), Chicago (640,000), and Atlanta (4,352,000).&nbsp; The Atlanta printing was a late one, and some books apparently don&#039;t list it.&nbsp; That makes star notes for the series overall look much rarer than they are, as the Atlanta printing was more than triple the size of the other printings combined....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Note also that Tauferners inadvertently posted the listing for 2003 $5&#039;s rather than 2003A $5&#039;s.&nbsp; The Series 2003 version had stars printed for Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, and the Philly version was another late printing that&#039;s not in some books.&nbsp; (A certain dealer has been advertising those 2003 $5 Philly stars in several publications for months now, loudly trumpeting the fact that they&#039;re &quot;unlisted in any reference&quot; and therefore obviously extremely rare.&nbsp; Apparently neither the <a href="http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/2/431/609" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/2/431/609" rel="nofollow">BEP&#039;s website</a> nor <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2003_q.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2003_q.html" rel="nofollow">mine</a> counts as a &quot;reference&quot;.&nbsp; Caveat emptor.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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