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1957 one United States dollar star note (Star precedes serial number) The United States and India [7] use " " in the serial number to mark a replacement banknote. These are known as "star notes". These were also used by Australia until 1972. Canada used " " at the beginning of serial numbers on its replacement banknotes until 1975. They are ...
Also, on sheetfed notes, the plate numbers are preceded by a letter. On the web note, the backplate number is just to the side of TRUST in the motto IN GOD WE TRUST (red box). On the sheetfed note, the backplate number is to the lower right corner of the central white space (blue box). Web notes were made for three series of dollar bills.
1862 (): A note that is very similar, the first $20 United States note. The back is different, with several small variations extant. 1863 (): A gold certificate $20 note with an Eagle vignette on the face. The reverse has a $20 gold coin and various abstract elements. The back is orange.
The act of tracking a $20 bill was the binding theme between various stories in the film Twenty Bucks.. A similar scheme to currency bill tracking – and said to be inspired by it – is BookCrossing, which tracks the movement of secondhand books which are marked and then "released into the wild".
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On banknotes of the United States dollar, the series refers to the year appearing on the obverse of a bill, indicating when the bill's design was adopted. The series year does not indicate the exact date a bill was printed; instead, the year indicates the first year that bills of the same design were originally made.
The CIA has been accused of printing and using counterfeit notes to fund off-the-books foreign operations. [39] Klaus Bender, an author of works on counterfeiting, states that the notes are of such high quality that they could only be produced by a government agency such as the CIA. [20]
A note printed with a special symbol before the serial number, or with a special serial number prefix, used to replace notes damaged during the manufacturing process. US replacement notes are called Star Notes because a five pointed star is positioned at the beginning or end of the serial number.