$100 Star Notes
184 print runs · series 2001–2025 · 92 short
The $100 has more star runs than any other denomination — 184 since October 2002 — and by far the widest spread between them. Its largest run is 800 times the size of its smallest. It is also the only denomination whose record already contains Series 2025.
What the print record holds for $100 star notes
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has reported 184 $100 star note runs since October 2002, across eleven series and all twelve Federal Reserve Banks — more runs than any other denomination. Ninety-two were short runs of 640,000 notes or fewer. The smallest were two runs of 32,000 notes, both for Atlanta.
- Print runs
- 184
- Short runs
- 92
- Smallest run
- 32,000
- Largest run
- 25,600,000
- Notes printed
- 328,768,000
- Reported
- November 2002 – May 2026
The $100 is where the two extremes of the whole dataset live. The 25,600,000-note Series 2009 run printed for San Francisco and reported in November 2010 is the largest star run the BEP has recorded since 2002; the two 32,000-note Atlanta runs are among the smallest outside the $2 program. Same denomination, same decade, a factor of 800 between them.
The shortest $100 star runs on record
| Notes printed | Series | Prefix | Federal Reserve Bank | Serial range | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,000 | 2006A | KF | Atlanta | 3,200,001–3,232,000 | May 2013 |
| 32,000 | 2017A | PF | Atlanta | 35,200,001–35,232,000 | October 2023 |
| 96,000 | 2006 | HK | Dallas | 9,600,001–9,696,000 | April 2010 |
| 128,000 | 2003 | DK | Dallas | 3,200,001–3,328,000 | March 2004 |
| 128,000 | 2006 | HL | San Francisco | 1–128,000 | February 2007 |
| 128,000 | 2006 | HL | San Francisco | 9,600,001–9,728,000 | October 2007 |
| 128,000 | 2006 | HK | Dallas | 3,200,001–3,328,000 | February 2010 |
| 128,000 | 2009 | JF | Atlanta | 1–128,000 | February 2010 |
Both 32,000-note runs went to Atlanta, ten years apart — Series 2006A in May 2013 and Series 2017A in October 2023. Two independent accidents of spoilage, not an Atlanta pattern: over 184 runs, the shortest two landing in the same district is about what chance predicts.
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 | 4 | 1 | 320,000 | 5,440,000 |
| 2003 | 8 | 4 | 128,000 | 7,168,000 |
| 2003A | 7 | 3 | 160,000 | 6,560,000 |
| 2006 | 27 | 13 | 96,000 | 31,552,000 |
| 2006A | 13 | 8 | 32,000 | 18,016,000 |
| 2009 | 22 | 7 | 128,000 | 86,720,000 |
| 2009A | 40 | 18 | 128,000 | 77,024,000 |
| 2013 | 17 | 11 | 128,000 | 23,616,000 |
| 2017A | 30 | 17 | 32,000 | 49,632,000 |
| 2021 | 14 | 9 | 320,000 | 19,520,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 320,000 | 3,520,000 |
Which Federal Reserve Bank issued them
| District | Federal Reserve Bank | Runs | Short runs | Smallest run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | New York | 50 | 28 | 128,000 |
| 12 | San Francisco | 39 | 20 | 128,000 |
| 6 | Atlanta | 26 | 14 | 32,000 |
| 11 | Dallas | 20 | 9 | 96,000 |
| 8 | St. Louis | 11 | 5 | 320,000 |
| 1 | Boston | 9 | 6 | 160,000 |
| 7 | Chicago | 9 | 3 | 160,000 |
| 5 | Richmond | 6 | 2 | 320,000 |
| 4 | Cleveland | 5 | 3 | 320,000 |
| 10 | Kansas City | 4 | 2 | 320,000 |
| 9 | Minneapolis | 4 | 0 | 3,200,000 |
| 3 | Philadelphia | 1 | 0 | 3,200,000 |
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 $100 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 $100 the record breaks down like this:
- 92 ordinary runs (more than 640,000 notes)
- 75 short runs (640,000 down to 160,001)
- 14 very short runs (160,000 down to 100,001)
- 3 exceptional runs (100,000 or fewer)
The single most common $100 star run size is 3,200,000 notes, which the BEP has reported 60 times. If your run comes back at that figure, you have a perfectly normal star note — which is what most star notes are.
The newest data on this site
The $100 is the denomination where the record is still moving. Series 2025 already appears in it: two New York runs reported in the May 2026 production report, one of 3,200,000 notes and one of 320,000 — and that second one is a short run.
A note printed that recently is not going to be worth a premium yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What matters is the other direction: if your $100 star note is from a series that new, this is the only place you can check its run at all, because the run was reported months ago and no price guide has caught up with it. The lookup is rebuilt every time the BEP publishes.
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 184 are $100. 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 $100 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 · $10 · $20 · $50. Each one has its own run table and its own lookup.
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