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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2760091, member: 11668&quot;]The new overprinting presses (<a href="https://govtribe.com/project/ns-lepe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://govtribe.com/project/ns-lepe" rel="nofollow">ns-LEPEs</a>) that they&#039;ll be acquiring won&#039;t use star notes: when they catch a defective sheet, they&#039;ll pull it out, but not replace it by anything.&nbsp; The result will be that straps of new currency will not necessarily have consecutive serial numbers, and will not necessarily start with a number ending in xxxxxx01.&nbsp; A print run won&#039;t produce 6,400,000 notes any more; it&#039;ll produce 6,400,000 notes minus rejects.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, those defective sheets won&#039;t just be destroyed; they&#039;ll be saved up for a while and eventually cut into individual notes and run through the Single-Note Inspection equipment that&#039;s been processing the 2009 $100&#039;s.&nbsp; That way, the BEP will be able to salvage all the good notes from a partially-bad sheet.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there&#039;ll still be star notes in Series 2017.&nbsp; The solicitation linked above indicates that the BEP hasn&#039;t even awarded the contract for the first ns-LEPE yet, and when they do, they don&#039;t expect delivery until 23 months later.&nbsp; It&#039;ll be many years before they have enough ns-LEPEs to handle all currency production.&nbsp; Long-term, though, it does sound like star notes will eventually go away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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