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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1805053, member: 11668&quot;]For those who don&#039;t want to do the math: As of September, the total printage of Series 2009A $100&#039;s is 51,552,000 stars vs. 4,009,600,000 regular notes, for a star rate of 1.29%.&nbsp; In absolute numbers, that *is* the largest number of stars for a $100 FRN series (beating out Series 1996 at 32,800,000).&nbsp; But as a percentage, it isn&#039;t all that bad; most recent series have been a bit under 1% stars, but Series 1999 was 1.44% stars, and before 1980 a typical $100 series was more like 3% to 6% stars, with Series 1963A holding the lead at almost 12%.&nbsp; (Probably not coincidentally, that series also saw major upgrades to the printing process--it always takes a while to get the kinks worked out of a new system.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We&#039;re still waiting to see what&#039;ll become of the Series 2009 $100&#039;s--the first attempt at printing the Kodachrome design, that had most of the serious problems.&nbsp; The BEP printed 1,440,000,000 regular notes and 86,848,000 stars of that series, for a star rate of 6.03%.&nbsp; But so far, we haven&#039;t seen any of them in circulation.&nbsp; Apparently they&#039;re still at the BEP, waiting to be re-inspected for defective notes (the BEP has to construct a machine to inspect single notes rather than full sheets).&nbsp; It&#039;s unclear what fraction of those notes will eventually make it into circulation (last I heard the BEP was predicting 70% or s0), so the 2009 $100 stars are a bit of a wildcard.&nbsp; They may turn out to be more plentiful than even the 2009A stars, but....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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