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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 531595, member: 11668&quot;]<b>No</b>, this is not how star notes work--that would defeat the entire purpose of star notes.&nbsp; The serial numbers are not matched this way.&nbsp; This star note *00003607A would have been used as a replacement for A00256735A or something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole reason why star notes exist is so that replacements can be prepared in advance, before the defective notes are even discovered.&nbsp; The star explains why there&#039;s an out-of-sequence serial in the middle of the strap of new notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the old days (before 1910), every defective note was replaced with an individually prepared replacement note that had exactly the same serial number, letters and all, as the bad note.&nbsp; This took a lot of time, since each replacement had to be specially numbered, one at a time, by the inspector who found the defective notes.&nbsp; Star notes were invented to speed up this replacement process, by getting rid of the requirement that the replacement note&#039;s serial number had to be matched to the bad note&#039;s serial number.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m not sure I&#039;d call this 1957 matched pair &quot;common&quot;, but it&#039;s not the first one I&#039;ve seen either.&nbsp; Somebody seems to have got hold of the first brick of 1957 silver certificates, A00000001A - A00004000A, and sold all those low serials into the collector market; they come up for sale fairly often.&nbsp; So whenever a low-serial star note was found, there&#039;s a good chance that the corresponding low-serial regular note was available to pair it with, and quite a few pairs like this were put together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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