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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1982935, member: 11668&quot;]Point of information: this is not true in most cases.&nbsp; Depending on the serialling conventions in use at the time, run length can often be calculated, or at least estimated, by looking at the serial numbers and plate positions of just a few notes from the run.&nbsp; Being able to do this is useful in order to determine just how many star notes were printed for a given district (there are a *lot* of errors in the BEP production reports where star notes are concerned).&nbsp; Even if you collect by district rather than by run, it&#039;s good to know how long the runs are, so that you know the total number of notes printed for the district.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Somewhat annoyingly, the serialling pattern used by the BEP&#039;s new LEPE overprinting lines makes it much harder to estimate run sizes based on observed notes.&nbsp; And in the short time that LEPE has been in use, there&#039;ve already been two star runs (2009 $1 H..* run 1 and B..* run 5) where the run length isn&#039;t known from the BEP reports (because the H..* was never reported, and the B..* run was reported incorrectly).&nbsp; So all we&#039;ve got are rather uncertain estimates of the number of notes printed in these runs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By the way, if anyone has a 2009 $1 note between B12800001* and B16000000*, please post the serial and plate position--we could use all the information we can get on these.&nbsp; The BEP reported printing just 160,000 notes from B12800001* to B12960000*, but observed serials reach as high as B1338xxxx*, and even higher serials might exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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