Strange 1976 $2 Star Note - Please Help!

Go back and read Numbers comments in post #11 to see why you are wrong about this.

 

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Tbud, I'm pretty impartial since I've been on this board less than a week...you sir are not the jerk on this thread. You may be guilty of feeding a troll, but not of being a jerk...that distinction belongs to someone else.

 

Ding! This thread has some good discussion on the note presented by the OP, but then it appears to have degraded into personalities, which is not allowed per rules. So consider this a warning that such will stop or action will have to be taken against the offender(s). It is over, so no last personal comments, just the subject of the thread.
Thanks Jim

 

He never made a reference to numbers. There's a possible chance but uncut sheet numbers are very high. I'm just going off what i've heard

 

Just for giggles, here are the other notes

 

How often do you find stars when searching two dollar bills? In the first post you mentioned that you found four more this time.

 

@ VA: Thanks for taking the time to post and share the other notes you found as well.

 

Say what? CT doesn't allow members to have personality? Now just what is this hobby coming to?

Of course when it comes to the note(s) in question, they have a lot of personality! They've been through the wringer known as circulation, likely: handed about, wallet-ed, passed from tellers to customers, re-straped, stuck in gift cards and sent in the mail, heck I've even deposited $2 notes into ATMs myself just to see if the machines would accept beat up notes of this denomination. Once while I was in a bank, I overhead a patron ask the teller for $2 notes because he liked using them at a gentlemen's club! Here we have notes that someone hacked up badly the margins, while some of the other notes presented show smudged grime, ink and who knows what else on them, but that personality sure has given us lots to talk about.

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Not at all. I've learned a long time ago that just by reading text you can't know the gender or age or nationality of the poster. The emoticon I used should have had j/k beside it.

 

Not for the 1976 $2.00 notes. The customary practice is for the higher numbered sheets to be pulled for sale as sheets. This did happen with the 1976 $2.00 notes. However, as Numbers pointed out and the information at www.uspapermoney.info confirms, the higher numbered sheets were not the only sheets that were sold by the BEP for this series. Lower numbered sheets were also sold. The problem is that the records of the BEP as to the lower number sheets that were sold is incomplete so there is no way to determine whether this note (or any other except the higher numbers) came from an uncut sheet.

Instead of going off what you have heard, please do some research and be able to support it with facts if you are going to comment about things outside of your area of expertise. Misinformation runs rampant on discussion boards and does not help.

 

The bottom two notes and the note in the OP were printed on the same sheet. They all end in 8695 and their numbers are multiples of 20000 apart. All three bear the same sort of unevenness on the edges as though they were cut from a sheet. The fact that they were in the same pack at this point is not a coincidence. Case closed.

 

ill take it i luv 2$:yes: face?

 

i do believe they use what we use at work is a flat cutter in which a pack per say 5 inch thick is cut at 1 time hence the 20000 difference all was cut at same time top bottom and sides but what is curious the serial # being exactly 20000 apart that is very interesting?:u*meY:

 

Reading downward, each serial number is 500 higher than the previous number. The last two digits in the serial will be the same on all of the notes on a sheet.

 

It's...complicated.

When the BEP prints sheets especially for collector sales, they generally use very high serials, above the maximum number printed for circulation. (Today the circulation printings go up 96000000 for most denominations, so the sheets use serials above that number).

However, not all of the uncut sheets sold to the public were printed especially for that purpose. Some of them, with star serial numbers, were printed to be used as replacement sheets, the way star notes are usually used in production. The sheets were then diverted for public sales instead. These sheets don't have high serial numbers--indeed, they usually have fairly low serials, as serial numbers on star notes don't often get all that high. These star sheets are always sold in 16-subject format or smaller, since that's the way the replacement sheets are printed and stored at the BEP. (In regular production, the sheets are cut in half before the serial numbers are ever printed on them; the only 32-subject sheets with serials on them are the ones printed especially for collectors using a different overprinting press.)

Far the largest batch of star sheets sold this way were the 1976 $2 sheets. When the BEP started printing $2 FRNs, their intention was to make them a common part of our circulating currency, replacing perhaps half of the $1 production by an equal dollar value of $2's. So they began by printing relatively large quantities of 1976 $2 star notes. Of course, the $2's utterly failed to catch on with the public, and production was curtailed, leaving the BEP with a large inventory of unused star sheets. Those sheets were sold to the public between 1981 and the late '80s. We don't have good records of the serial numbers of these sheets. Based on collector observations, there don't seem to have been any sheets sold from districts E and I, and very few were sold for district J. (That's why those three districts' stars are the key stars for the 1976 $2 series--all the other districts' stars are more or less readily available in CU condition from the sheets.)

Another, much smaller batch of $2 star sheets were sold in a similar manner after the Series 1995 production run. In that case, we have precise information on the number sold; the BEP announced that only 4478 of the 16-subject star sheets were available for that series.

When the BEP first began selling sheets of higher-denomination notes, they typically just borrowed some star sheets from some run that had just been printed for circulation purposes, in order to avoid the trouble of printing a very small uncut-sheet run (demand for high-denomination sheets being relatively small). Thus star sheets exist for the 2003 $5 DG..*, 1995 $10 F..*, 2003 $10 DA..*, 2004A $10 GB..*, GF..*, GL..*, 1996 $20 AL..*, 2004 $20 EA..*, 2004A $20 GA..*, and 2004 $50 EG..*. But more recently, they've started printing even the high-denomination uncut sheets in special runs with high serial numbers.

Finally, there was one oddball release of 1999 $1 E..* sheets. I haven't seen an explanation for that one; maybe the BEP just likes to keep us on our toes occasionally. At any rate, it's the only $1 star that's ever been sold in sheet form.

Again, all of these star sheets have ordinary low-ish serial numbers, and none of them come in 32-subject form, only 16-subject and smaller.

Oh, and in a separate exception to the sheets-have-high-numbers rule, there were also the 1995 $5 "Prosperity" sheets, all of which had serial numbers beginning with H8888, and were sold in 8-subject form only. Because the number 8 is just that cool.

There now, aren't you glad you asked?