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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1244623, member: 11668&quot;]The trouble is that people aren&#039;t using words consistently....</p><p><br /></p><p>There were 4,928,000 Chicago $20 stars printed for Series 1974.&nbsp; They were printed in 11 print runs, ranging in size from 128,000 notes to 640,000 notes.&nbsp; At the time, 640,000 notes was the standard size of a full run.&nbsp; So either way you look at it, your star is a pretty common one for the series: it&#039;s from the second most common district, and it&#039;s from a full-length run.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think there are a whole lot of folks collecting notes this old by print run.&nbsp; Back then, the runs were fairly small, and the error rate was higher than it is today, so the BEP printed a *lot* of star runs per series (63 of them in the 1974 $20&#039;s).&nbsp; So a collection of stars by run wouldn&#039;t be very manageable.&nbsp; It&#039;s more likely that someone would collect by district, needing only 12 notes for a full set.</p><p><br /></p><p>In contrast, nowadays the standard run size is larger (3,200,000 notes), the error rates are lower, and the BEP no longer worries about matching the district of a star note to the district of the error note it&#039;s replacing.&nbsp; As a result, in a typical modern series, the number of star runs printed is fairly small, so that a run set is often about the right size for a nice collection.&nbsp; For example, the 2006 $20 had 13 star runs printed, and the 2004A $20 had only six.&nbsp; In the eight years that colorized $20&#039;s have been in production so far, there&#039;ve been a total of 46 star runs printed--that&#039;s still fewer than in Series 1974 alone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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