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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1809700, member: 11668&quot;]Some of this is out of date.&nbsp; The 20,000-sheet standard run was increased to 40,000 in 1980, then 100,000 in 1983.&nbsp; In 1989 it was increased again to 200,000 sheets, but only for $1 through $20 non-star notes; the $50, $100, and all star notes continue to be printed in the 100,000-sheet standard runs (though stars are often printed in partial runs, regardless of what standard run is in use at the time).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Gaps in the star notes have also followed different patterns over time.&nbsp; The 160,000-serial gaps that you mention ended in 1977, when the BEP quit numbering each block all the way up to 99999999 (the 160,000 missing star notes were caused by the quarter-run of regular notes numbered 99840001 and up).&nbsp; From 1977 to 1995 there were lots of star runs with 31 small internal gaps, due to the way the BEP used to print partial star runs (a few runs like this were also printed before 1977, but they were much less frequent back then).&nbsp; In 1995 they changed the way partial star runs are handled, so that gaps now appear only between runs, not within them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The new LEPE numbering has re-shuffled the relationship between serial numbers and plate positions, but so far it hasn&#039;t caused any changes to the way the BEP decides which serial numbers to print and which to skip.&nbsp; When they switch from 32-subject sheets to 50-subject sheets (which the new LEPE and the new SOI presses are designed to handle), we may see more substantial changes in how the serialling works.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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