• 23
  • no serial suffix letter, but a star
  • "B" is the Reference Number for the NEW YORK Reserve Bank! Hahah! That was the only thing left for me to prove this note was made for me! ;-)

H23 BB00934850 * ...my $100 'star note'

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Today I realized that I had among my savings a $100 dollar note that has no serial suffix letter...!!!

To add to the mystery it has an H23 on bottom right of Franklin! (Ha, looked like a note made for me: a galactic sign -star- and the 23! |-).... [edit :: And the "B" preffix means it was issued by the New York Reserve Bank! I´m utterly impressed ]

Had to check online to know what was this "star" replacing the serial suffix letter about!!!

I found out that these bills are quite a rarity...

On the Bureau of Engraving and Printing website says the following:
( www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/121 )

"Overprinting

"A letterpress overprints with black ink the Federal Reserve District seal and its corresponding number designation. It then overprints the Treasury seal and serial numbers in green ink. Two guillotine cutters slice the notes into two note units (100 sheets at a time) and finally into single stacks of one-hundred notes. The units of 100 notes are banded and packaged into "bricks" containing 40 units; each "brick" contains 4,000 notes. The bricks are distributed to one of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, which issue the notes to local banks. If a finished note is found to be imperfect after it has been overprinted, it is replaced with a "star note". In design, star notes are exactly like the notes they replace, but they can carry an independent series of serial numbers. The star appears after the serial number in place of the suffix letter on Federal Reserve notes. The serial number of the imperfect note is not used again in the same number sequence."

Is it common to find wildcards like these daily on the US or is this a real oddity? More info on this I will appreciate. Thanks! =)

StarrGazr, dsgetch, rhino100604, connors934, and 41 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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  1. dsgetch 76 months ago | reply

    I'll give you 23 dollars for it :)

    Happy 23DAY by the by.

  2. dsgetch 76 months ago | reply

    It looks like you haven't joined

    www.flickr.com/groups/the23enigma/

    Another excellent place for this photo.

  3. nhr 76 months ago | reply

    I'm willing to trade your cheaply printed sample for one of these elusive, limited-edition, guaranteed uncirculated 300-Euro banknotes I happen to have... ;^)

  4. ... has left the building [deleted] 76 months ago | reply

    What a tempting offer ;-)))

  5. Victor Geere [deleted] 75 months ago | reply

    I'll give you a five hundred dawllerz:

    Pity about the exchange rate though.

    On 26 July 2006 the parallel market value of the Zimbabwean dollar fell to one million to the British pound. --wikipedia

  6. dean.keats 68 months ago | reply

    Here are nine simple questions every American should be asking:

    1. Why does our government not create money directly, as stated by Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, but rather borrows it at interest from a private bank, putting the nation into debt?

    2. If all money being introduced into the economy of the United States comes from dollar loans, and all of America must use the dollar to pay back debts, where does the money to pay the interest come from?

    3. Where are the accounting documents showing the complete breakdown of what our income taxes pay for?

    4. How is it possible for a bank to loan out more money than what it has on deposits, where if you or I were attempt to do the same, we would go to jail for counterfeiting?

    5. If the law states that payment of income taxes is only by “voluntary compliance” then why are non-payers held criminally liable for a non-crime?

    6. If payment of income taxes is obligated by law, then why must one sign a payment agreement when dealing with the IRS?

    7. Why are income taxes directly paid in different amounts by different individuals, when the United States Constitution Article 1, Section 9, states that all taxes levied must be apportioned to the states according to census?

    8. Why is the exchange of wages for services considered income we must pay taxes on, when income is legally defined as corporate profits?

    9. Why are no high ranking political officials addressing these questions publicly?

    The system works like this: imagine a teacher (the banker) walks into a classroom, and gives the students (the economy) $100 each. The teacher leaves, locks the door, comes back the next day, and orders everyone to pay up $110. Perhaps some students can pay, but others won't, so the only way to satisfy the bank temporarily is to borrow more money!

    The people are going to have to come up with a just, accountable, and fair system of permanent money, not money based on debts and promises, otherwise this earth belongs to the bankers.

    Google videos and find out what is really pulling the strings in Washington:

    *Money as Debt
    *Monopoly Men
    *Freedom to Fascism
    *The Money Masters
    *Zeitgeist

    Everyone who sees this, understand that your fight is one of ideas, not guns. Spread the word to your family, friends, and anyone with a mind open enough to listen. Be patient, you can not convert people by force. They will learn in their own time, but make the information available. If Americans are what we think we are, it's time to put our money where our mouth is, and we will wake up and change all this before it is too late.

    The demented ability to coerce the masses into fighting each other is part of an age coming to an end. We will not fight anymore, we know how we have been manipulated and lied to; now we will work to solve humanity's problems together. This single planet is our lifeboat. It is time to learn that we must either choose to get along, or go down sinking with the ship. The only way out of this is peacefully.

    If you think that there is nothing one person can do, and that we as individuals are powerless, think of gravity. A tiny atom in the most unimportant place in the most insignificant corner of the universe has an effect, albeit small, on every other atom in every other corner of the universe. Now, if everything affects everything, then there is no predictable outcome but this: that you ARE involved. Your contribution MATTERS.

    If a butterfly can flap its wings today, and affect a hurricane a month from now, then what you do now could be all that is needed to create a better future. We as citizens must spread knowledge and truth, and expose the lies of the ruling elites who harbor no sentimentality for you or I. We must become responsible for ourselves, work to make this country what it is supposed to be, because history shows that when that responsibility is relinquished to leaders, it is only abused.

    This is not a struggle between nations, not a struggle with America, or between guns and bombs of the world. It is a struggle of human rights and justice versus those who would conspire to take them away for their own ambitions of power. The main tool of this implementation is money.

    Those who have money, and enforce the acceptance of its value have power over those who don't and cannot.

    What they fear is that the people will wake up and decide together that something else will be accepted as value, instantly making all the bankers bankrupt.

    They are trying to keep the secret from the masses what we have the power to choose to change the world at any time. The only thing we must do is collude with one another long enough to make the decision. This is why the bankers want to keep us divided and fighting with one another, forever.

    I will not fight. I will learn, and spread knowledge and peace, never destroy, but work to build a future of safety and peace, because this is the higher power.

  7. dastpor2000 [deleted] 66 months ago | reply

    it is nice.

  8. arnettb 57 months ago | reply

    Cool, I had no idea they did this! It reminds me of the stars on a Tootsie Pop wrapper. Kids used to circulate the myth that you could trade in the star wrappers at the store for more candy. Thanks for making your photo Creative Commons. I used it here, with credit:

    storyaday.net/2008/09/08/162-lisas-job/

  9. imagepeace 56 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called End the Federal Reserve - End the Fed, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  10. shallowend 56 months ago | reply

    Thanks for allowing others to use this image!

    No más dinero by Walter Watzpatzkowski

  11. AlanHI 50 months ago | reply

    I love engraving, I did a dollar-style note about bikers in Baja Mexico. I didn't engrave it of course, I used ink and photoshop.

  12. invisible consequential 50 months ago | reply

    Nice close-up. Thanks for sharing with Creative Commons. I paired this with an article advising that we "Decouple the World from the Dollar" www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000119

  13. mr money1 39 months ago | reply

    i have a original 1976 2 dollar bill that has a star on it it has been folded a few times and it it not mint and not in a sleeve either it has 4 is on it and then is says c3 and c69

  14. MONEYMAN1996 24 months ago | reply

    BB *'s are quite rare. I'll tell you right now without even reading the description of that note that it is from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (B2) and it is Series 1999 (the first B in the serial # gave that off). Series 1999 $100 stars are considered very rare because not too many were printed. I've been collecting for several years now myself. I have one in my collection but not for New York, mines is for Boston (A1). The first B in the serial number means series 1999. The second B means New York. The star means that it is a replacment note due to an error detection or experiment.The H23 is the plate position of a 32 note plate. This note happens to run in a print run of 1,920,000 notes printed similar to ths one. Your particular note was printed in November of 2001 at the Washington, D.C. BEP printing facility.

  15. MONEYMAN1996 24 months ago | reply

    mr money1:
    C3 means Philadelphia. Don't be fooled by the year 1976, they aren't too rare at all. I look through stacks of $2's all the time and the year 1976 for a $2 FRN doesn't mean much because $2's don't see much circulation. The fact that yours is a star changes everything though. You should hold on to it, the BEP just shut production of $2's to a hault.The last series, Series 2003A is the last series for quite some time. 1976 was the Bicintential year, the first year that the design of the $2 was put into circulation with the "Declaration of Independence Signing on the Back 1776". Before Series 1976 $2 design, it was a red seal monticello back in 1963.

  16. MONEYMAN1996 24 months ago | reply

    Oh and I did seem to forget to let you know that depending on the condition of your note, it can be worth anywhere from $150 to $250 depending on condition of course. From what I can see of what little picture sample you provided, it looks like somewhere around $200. Writing, rips, stains, center folds, ripped corners, etc all play a huge role in determining the value of your 1999 $100 star note. If anybody on here has any question on any bills feel free to ask me :). I love talking about money

  17. lexxicakkess 7 months ago | reply

    I have a $100 with the star too and i didnt know what it meant so i kept it(:

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