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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2095542, member: 11668&quot;]Not quite.&nbsp; The star note has a totally different serial number than the defective note that it replaces.&nbsp; That&#039;s the whole point of star notes--they can be printed up in advance, and then used to replace whatever defective notes are caught during the main printing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the very old days, star notes weren&#039;t used; instead, every bad note had to be individually reprinted, with the same serial number as the original.&nbsp; That took way too long, which is why star notes were invented.&nbsp; Star notes were first used in 1910 for the lower-denomination (hence higher-volume) notes, and by the 1940s they were in use for all currency printings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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