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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Searcher64, post: 759539, member: 21828&quot;]From what I have been able to find out.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The stars are printed first. To be used as needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Old days they insurted them during the print process. Too time consuming.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The old 1929 (Brown seals) series, were replace as found. The serial numbers were hand stamped on the replacement sheets of bills. The numbers are mushy looking and sometimes out of line.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. They then just replaced the defective sheet with a full star sheet.Still too time consuming.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>5. Later they started changing out the pack, when finding a defect. Less time consuming.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Now when a defect is found, they now replace the entire brick of 4000 notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. The way to &quot;ID&quot; the replaced notes today, is by their wrapping, from the printing facility. The regular runs are wrapped with a wrapper with straight bands. The replaced (Stars) have cross bands on the wrapper.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this has helped. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />-O)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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