$10 Star Notes
46 print runs · series 2001–2021 · 28 short
The $10 has the fewest star runs of the common denominations — 46 since October 2002 — and it holds the second-smallest run in the whole record: 9,600 notes, printed for Atlanta and reported in March 2006.
What the print record holds for $10 star notes
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has reported 46 $10 star note runs since October 2002, across nine series and all twelve Federal Reserve Banks. Twenty-eight were short runs of 640,000 notes or fewer. The smallest was 9,600 notes: Series 2004A, Atlanta, reported in March 2006.
- Print runs
- 46
- Short runs
- 28
- Smallest run
- 9,600
- Largest run
- 3,200,000
- Notes printed
- 57,449,600
- Reported
- September 2003 – February 2025
Outside the $2 program, nothing in the record is smaller. The eleven 8,000-note $2 runs of February 2004 are the only star runs the BEP has reported below this one, and they were a $2 oddity printed across eleven districts at once. This 9,600-note run is a single run, of a denomination people carry, and there is exactly one of it.
The shortest $10 star runs on record
| Notes printed | Series | Prefix | Federal Reserve Bank | Serial range | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,600 | 2004A | GF | Atlanta | 1–9,600 | March 2006 |
| 64,000 | 2013 | ME | Richmond | 1–64,000 | February 2018 |
| 128,000 | 2003 | DH | St. Louis | 1–128,000 | January 2004 |
| 128,000 | 2004A | GL | San Francisco | 1–128,000 | July 2005 |
| 128,000 | 2006 | IG | Chicago | 3,200,001–3,328,000 | June 2009 |
| 128,000 | 2013 | MF | Atlanta | 1–128,000 | October 2017 |
| 128,000 | 2017 | NJ | Kansas City | 3,200,001–3,328,000 | June 2018 |
| 128,000 | 2017 | NF | Atlanta | 1–128,000 | April 2019 |
Atlanta appears three times in those eight rows. Over 46 runs that is what chance looks like rather than a pattern worth trading on, and the bank table further down is where you can see the whole distribution instead of its tail.
No dollar figure here, and that is deliberate. Run size tells you how many notes exist. What a note is worth depends on its condition, and two notes from the same run can be an order of magnitude apart. Anyone who quotes you a price from a serial number alone is guessing. Use these numbers to know what you have, then have it graded before you believe a figure.
Series by series
| Series | Runs | Short runs | Smallest run | Notes printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 640,000 | 640,000 |
| 2003 | 6 | 4 | 128,000 | 4,704,000 |
| 2004A | 8 | 5 | 9,600 | 10,121,600 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3 | 128,000 | 3,328,000 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 | 640,000 | 7,936,000 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3 | 64,000 | 7,232,000 |
| 2017 | 6 | 4 | 128,000 | 5,248,000 |
| 2017A | 9 | 5 | 320,000 | 14,400,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 | 320,000 | 3,840,000 |
Which Federal Reserve Bank issued them
| District | Federal Reserve Bank | Runs | Short runs | Smallest run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | New York | 9 | 4 | 320,000 |
| 6 | Atlanta | 8 | 6 | 9,600 |
| 12 | San Francisco | 7 | 4 | 128,000 |
| 7 | Chicago | 5 | 4 | 128,000 |
| 10 | Kansas City | 4 | 1 | 128,000 |
| 8 | St. Louis | 3 | 3 | 128,000 |
| 1 | Boston | 2 | 1 | 416,000 |
| 4 | Cleveland | 2 | 0 | 1,280,000 |
| 9 | Minneapolis | 2 | 1 | 320,000 |
| 3 | Philadelphia | 2 | 2 | 320,000 |
| 11 | Dallas | 1 | 1 | 320,000 |
| 5 | Richmond | 1 | 1 | 64,000 |
The district letter in your serial number is the bank that issued the note, not the city it was printed in. All twelve districts appear in the $10 star record.
How to read a run size
A star run of more than 640,000 notes is ordinary. At 640,000 or fewer the note starts to be scarce, and the further below, the scarcer. On the $10 the record breaks down like this:
- 18 ordinary runs (more than 640,000 notes)
- 20 short runs (640,000 down to 160,001)
- 6 very short runs (160,000 down to 100,001)
- 2 exceptional runs (100,000 or fewer)
The single most common $10 star run size is 3,200,000 notes, which the BEP has reported 11 times. If your run comes back at that figure, you have a perfectly normal star note — which is what most star notes are.
Series 2004A: the one year that matters here
Eight of the 46 $10 star runs belong to Series 2004A, and five of those eight are short — including the 9,600-note run. No other $10 series concentrates its short runs like that.
What this does not mean is that any Series 2004A $10 star note is valuable. Three of those eight runs are ordinary, and one of them is over a million notes. The series year narrows the search; the serial range decides it. That is what the lookup above is for.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is counted from the Monthly Production Reports of the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing — 284 reports covering October 2002 to May 2026, parsed into 684 rows and deduplicated to 678 star note runs, of which 46 are $10. Works of the US federal government carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. §105. Nothing here comes from a dealer’s price list. The parsing, the checks and the known gaps are written up in the methodology.
Records start in October 2002. A $10 star note older than that cannot be looked up here — that is a gap in the public record, not a fault in your note.
Other denominations: $1 · $2 · $5 · $20 · $50 · $100. Each one has its own run table and its own lookup.
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