LogFAQs > #978868531

What I failed to notice earlier is that those are star notes, which are always awesome. That doesn't really increase the value any because they made so many 1976 twos(more than any year to date, of which we have 1976, 1995, 2003, 2003a, 2009, 2013 and 2017A). I do not know if the sheets all came in star notes or if it was random or what, but I suspect even so this is common.

BUT we can take it a step further and see how rare these star notes are, by going here:

https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/star-notes/2#1976

So for notes issued to FED bank A(Boston), we have a total of 1.2 million star notes issued. None of these are going to be rare necessarily, even the runs of 640K. Some star notes come in runs of 100K or less, but none here(looking at you 1999 ten dollar notes!!!!).

Looking into it further I see several images of these sheets with star notes, but cool none the less.

So, uhh, what the heck is a star note, anyways?

The star symbol at the end of both serial numbers indicates this is a replacement note for one damaged in production. They don't reprint individual notes on the spot or anything, nor is this an exact replica(sans star) of a note to have been created. They just wait until a run is over and then print these hundreds of thousands or millions of these to replace what was lost.

I collect every star note I see. I have several hundred at this point, including a brand new FED strap of one dollar star notes that are sequential. I have paid exactly face value for every single one.