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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 303330, member: 8247&quot;]OK, here&#039;s a quick question regarding how Star Notes are issued for circulation.&nbsp; Or rather it&#039;s a request for confirmation if I understand the process correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the old days, when notes were &quot;100%&quot; inspected, defective notes were literally swapped out of 100 note straps and replaced with a star note.&nbsp; This was a manual process.&nbsp; If a sheet was found to be defective or contain an error, the affected notes received a red flag, red mark, or similar so that the person inspecting the final straps could recognize which notes needed to be swapped out quicker.&nbsp; I have seen auctions in the past where notes recieved a red flag or a red crayon-like mark, but the final inspector missed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>While this procedure helped contribute to error notes escaping to circulation, it made the auditor&#039;s job much easier.&nbsp; Separate and independent auditors could easily account for the number of pages fed into the printing press, the number of star notes printed, the number of normal notes printed.&nbsp; An independent auditor could independently verify that the number of star notes consumed equals the number of rejected notes received for destruction.</p><p><br /></p><p>=====</p><p><br /></p><p>In the current method, I think it&#039;s still true that inspectors can put red flags on any defective page at any step in the process and sensors in the COPE-PAK step (Currency Overprinting and Processing Equipment and Packaging) would detect the red flags and remove the defective pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I don&#039;t know is if </p><p><br /></p><p>1. - the equipment automatically swaps in a Star note page after the overprint is applied but before the notes are cut and wrapped???, or </p><p><br /></p><p>2. -do they just feed in the requesite number of star note pages to complete the 20,000 page run at the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>If method 1 is followed, the star notes would be sprinkled throughout the 100-note packs.&nbsp; If method 2 is followed, there would possibly be straps of notes that don&#039;t start with 01 and end with 99 and the last bundle in the 640,000 note run would contain the motherload of star notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just curious if any cash handlers out there have seen evidence of method 1 or 2.&nbsp; Both methods would have their pro&#039;s and con&#039;s and I have not seen any articles that discuss the details to this detail.&nbsp; I know about the note on each BEP wrapped strapped regarding the possibility of serial numbers not being consecutive, but you could apply that statement to both methods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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