2013 Star Note 1 Dollar Bill: Duplicate Serial Check

A single Series 2013 $1 star note is usually worth face value or a little more; the money is in the duplicate serial numbers. Because of a bookkeeping mistake at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, New York district star notes printed in Washington, D.C. in October and November 2014 (serials B00000001* to B00250000*, then B03200001* to B09600000*) had the same numbers printed again about two years later at the Fort Worth facility (Coin World). Two notes with the same serial, one from each plant, form a matched pair.

• The serial starts with B (New York) and ends with a star.
• The number falls inside B00000001*–B00250000* or B03200001*–B09600000*.
• Look for a small FW mark on the face: Fort Worth notes carry it and Washington notes do not (Wikipedia).
• Write the serial down. A single note is only worth more if someone holds its twin; the pair is what sold for $25,000.

Our serial number checker confirms the bank letter and the star.

A matched pair sold on eBay on October 9, 2022 for $25,000; Paper Money Guaranty graded one note Very Fine 30 and the other Gem Uncirculated 67 (Coin World). As of September 2021 only 11 matched pairs had been confirmed out of millions of duplicated numbers, and the notes were last printed in June 2017, so new pairs get harder to find as worn notes are destroyed (Coin World).

For modern $1 stars, rarity comes from a small print run: runs of 640,000 or fewer are generally treated as scarce (My Currency Collection). Older silver certificate stars can be worth far more; Greysheet (September 25, 2026) lists the 1928-D $1 star at $1,000–$100,000, the 1928-E star at $5,500–$34,000 and the 1935A R experimental star at $1,400–$25,000. See the $1 silver certificate chart by series.

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