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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1321817, member: 11668"]It's almost surely from an uncut sheet. The BEP had many sheets of star notes left over when they quit printing 1976 $2's, and they sold them to collectors over the course of about ten years starting in 1981. We don't have information on exactly which star serials were in these sheets vs. which were issued to circulation as replacement notes; but whenever you see a 1976 $2 star with a lousy cutting job, it's likely to be from one of the sheets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only after the BEP sold out of those leftover star sheets did they print any 1976 $2 non-star uncut sheets. Those sheets, the ones printed specifically for collector sales, are what are listed in the link rickmp posted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ragged edges don't help the note's value any, but still, a $2 star with that little circulation wear will be worth a good bit more than face value to somebody. Definitely not a spender....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1321817, member: 11668"]It's almost surely from an uncut sheet. The BEP had many sheets of star notes left over when they quit printing 1976 $2's, and they sold them to collectors over the course of about ten years starting in 1981. We don't have information on exactly which star serials were in these sheets vs. which were issued to circulation as replacement notes; but whenever you see a 1976 $2 star with a lousy cutting job, it's likely to be from one of the sheets. Only after the BEP sold out of those leftover star sheets did they print any 1976 $2 non-star uncut sheets. Those sheets, the ones printed specifically for collector sales, are what are listed in the link rickmp posted. The ragged edges don't help the note's value any, but still, a $2 star with that little circulation wear will be worth a good bit more than face value to somebody. Definitely not a spender....[/QUOTE]
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