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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 400268, member: 11668"]And it should be noted that on *star* notes, at least in recent years, one leading zero is pretty standard.  Stars just aren't printed in huge quantities, so most of the time, they never even get up to serial 10000000 in any given series/denomination/district. In the 2003A $1's, for example, some 68% of all star notes had serials beginning with zero, and 14% began with double-zero.  In the 2003 $1's, it was 87% and 14%; in the 2001 $1's, 99% and 15%.  Higher-denomination stars are generally printed in even smaller quantities, so the pattern is even more pronounced; it's not unusual for every single star note in an entire series to start with zero.  You have to go back to Series 1999 to find the last time the BEP printed a star serial beginning with a 2 (on a $5 rather than a $1, oddly enough).[/QUOTE]