#DOLLAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERS#
#DOLLAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIES#

When an imperfect sheet is detected during the manufacturing process after the serial number has been overprinted, it must be replaced with a new sheet.ДЄ 'star' sheet is used to replace the imperfect sheet. On some notes, a star appears in place of the last letter. The letter O is not used because of its similarity to the digit 0, and the letter Z is not used because it is reserved for test printings.

#DOLLAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIES#

At the time of a series change, the suffix letter returns to the letter A and repeats the cycle.

#DOLLAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERS#

The last letter advances through the alphabet when all eight character serial numbers have been printed for a specific Federal Reserve Bank within the same series. In this system, only one block was used at a time for a given bank, so the sequence of serial numbers would be A, A, A, and so on.Each note of the same denomination has its own serial number. In addition to the serial number, each note also carried the charter number of the issuing bank, printed in black on each end of the note. If a single bank issued more than six million notes of a denomination an extremely rare occurrencethen FA would be followed by AB through FB and so forth. National Currency used a different numbering system entirely-in fact, more accurately, it used two different systems, since a change was made to the numbering in For each issuing bank, six blocks of serial numbers were used simultaneously : the first six notes would be numbered AA through FA, the next six AA through FA, and so on. For these older note types, replacement notes had a star in place of the first letter of the serial, rather than the last letter. The letter O has always been skipped, however. Note: presumably the Z would also have been used on Federal Reserve Notes back then, if it had been needed, but the serial numbers of the FRNs never got so high. The letter Z was still in use then, so after Y. A was printed, the next block would use letters B. The order of the blocks was therefore different as well: after a complete block of serials with the letters A. United States Notes, Silver Certificates, and Gold Certificates were not issued by the Federal Reserve Banks, so the first letter of their serial numbers, like the last letter, only served to distinguish different blocks it had no particular meaning.

On some older note types which are no longer commonly found in circulation, the letters of the serial number were used differently. The last letter still can be anything but O or Z, and is still occasionally replaced by a star, with the same meaning as before.

Note that the series designation has been used for notes of two different design generations, and that it is paired with a different serial prefix letter in each case. The recently redesigned Federal Reserve Notes, beginning with Serieshave two letters rather than one at the beginning of the serial number. The eight digits can be anything from tobut in recent years the highest serial numbers have been reserved for the BEP's souvenir uncut sheets of currency, and therefore not issued for circulation. The star indicates that the note is a replacement for another note that was found to be defective or damaged during printing see the section on star notes below. The letter O is not used because of its similarity to the digit 0, and the letter Z is not used because it is reserved for specimen notes or test printings. The last letter has no particular meaning it merely advances through the alphabet as each block of notes is printed. The first letter of such a serial number identifies the Federal Reserve Bank which issued the note since there are twelve FRBs, this letter is always between A and L.

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