Zegers Winograd Project List

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Kelsi Corsi

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:51:46 PM8/3/24

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The ERROR:
In 2014 and 2016, The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), printed series 2013 $1 Federal Reserve New York star notes from two facilities, Washington DC and Fort Worth. This, in itself is not unusual. The unusual part is they duplicated some serial numbers. There are dollar bills out there circulating with the same exact serial number as another dollar bill! The only difference is one bill has an indicator showing it was printed in Fort Worth, while the DC note does not. When the government does it it's legal, when WE do it it's called counterfeiting... LOL.

The PROJECT (prior and NEW)
In an attempt to help currency collectors find a matching pair of notes, Mr. Ed Zegers of Maryland and Mr. Karol Winograd of Florida started a project (known as the Zegers/Winograd project) of recording all the serial numbers submitted to them by fellow collectors. To date, there have been 9 matching pairs confirmed. The Zegers/Winograd project ceased maintaining the list in September 2021, but I have stepped in and carried on where they left off. For lack of a better name, I called it "Project 2013B".

Let's get matched!
Please let fellow collectors know that the Zegers/Winograd project lives on under Project 2013B. There have been reports of collectors spending their 2013B star notes after hearing that Zegers/Winograd had stopped updating their list. A matched pair could be worth thousands of dolalrs, with one matched pair recently selling at auction for $7200! The new 'Project 2013B' website has an online form that allows you to submit the serial numbers of any 2013B star notes that you might have. When a match is found in the database, the two owners will be contacted, and they can then decide if they want to get the notes together to be auctioned off (or simply kept as part of a collection). It's worth at shot at $7200+ !

Thank you to the Keepers of the Knowledge for making the effort to reunite pairs. I'll be happy to tell holders of 2013B stars that their note isn't worth just $1, it's a lottery ticket, and always worth $1. Just go to this site and register it and maybe you will be a winner one day, or are one already.

@PastExpiryDotCom thanks, this is an interesting project, worthy of my attention. I have hundreds of $1 star notes to check after the holiday dust settles. Project 2013B is bookmarked til then. Peace Roy

So I was submitting around 20x of my 2013 star notes and after I was done. I downloaded the Excel data sheet to see the list. I think I have a match but I haven't been notified yet.
Am I correct or not?

The admin of the website would email each of us first and ask us to take a picture of the front and back of the note with the present dates on it.
After the admin confirms that both of us have the note. the admin will cc both parties and tell us that we can negotiate with each other and he will note be part of it.
We were emailing each other for a month or so until the other party said she needed time to think about what to do next and this was around June of this year. I emailed her a couple of times since June and the last one was from last week but she has not replied.

I would hardly say it goes "Into a dark hole" . One or two days might pass before I update the list with the latest submitted serial numbers, at which time I check for any new matches. The previous list owner updated his list only once a month.

As soon as a new match is made, both the DC and FW banknote owners are contacted, and the communications begin. The biggest delays are due to people that do not check their emails or do not check their spam folders. A few never respond, and who know how many might of died of Covid in the last few years.

I just discovered the matching one dollar bills 2013B Project. I have submitted 2 bills. What's going on with this project?
I have not heard from anyone. I noticed one of my bills is listed already on your site. This is almost May, 2023. How come these previous posts are so old? Who can I get in touch who runs this project?

Yes, there are buyers for these matched pair. PCGS even recognizes it as a production error, whereas PMG is slowly coming around to it.
Here is a history of auctions that I am aware of: -history-for-2013b-matched-pairs.html

Be sure to add them yourself, otherwise there is no way to contact you if there is a match. Check the date the bills were submitted... if it was a year or two ago, it could just be whoever own the bills before you got them had entered them (then they either gave up, or one of their kids took the bills to buy crack).

I'm unclear on the sequence of events regarding your notes, and what you mean by "Match". Some people (probably not you) automatically assume they have a match simply if they see another serial number in the list that matches theirs, without going the extra second to notice that both serial number are for the same Fort Worth (or same DC note).

Without a serial number to comment on all I can do for now is explain what I do on my end.
Once a matching pair is detected in my database, I contact each party. Once each party replies back with a photo of their bill (proof of ownership), I share the email address of each bill owner with the other bill owner. At that point I am out of the loop as I make the assumption I am dealing with two adults.

On a rare occasion I will contact one of the bill owners at the request of the other bill owner if they have stopped responding. Sometimes it could be that Bill Owner "A"s email ended up in email owner "B"s spam folder. It is 2023, and a depressing number of people STILL do not know the ins and outs of email. More often than not the other party got offended by the other owner's lowball offer to buy their bill. In on case, the broken english of one owner gave the other owner 'scammy' vibes despite the scammer re-sending a photo of his bill, with the current date AND a scan of his driver's license!

In the cases where only ONE person has responded to me, and the 'other guy' is no where to be found, I make several attempts to contact him and use 4 different email addresses in case one of mine end up in their spam folder. If there is still no response, I try to find them online using their email address to see if the email address is tied to a workplace or random chat thread. Afte a month or so, the 'other' guy gets added to my "Missing in action" list on my website and is also included in a blog post I sent out monthly to my readers. After a year, they graduate to my Hall of Shame.

04710861 - I believe this note is the one that the owner never replied back.
08417917 - This is the note that the owner stopped replying back after 4 replies back to back. We did not even discuss how much we each want the notes for or what to do with it.

I think I first posted here about a year ago about the project. In that time the list of registered serial numbers has grown from 10,000 to almost 28,000. Today marked the confirmation the project's 20th matched pair. Photos of both the DC and FW notes are verified for the serial number, B seal, plate numbers and so on. Once that occurs the email addresses of the registered owners are shared between the two owners and they go off and negotiate to physically complete the pair.

Background info....
The ERROR:
In 2014 and 2016, The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), printed series 2013 $1 Federal Reserve New York star notes from two facilities, Washington DC and Fort Worth. This, in itself is not unusual. The unusual part is they duplicated some serial numbers. There are dollar bills out there circulating with the same exact serial number as another dollar bill! The only difference is one bill has an indicator showing it was printed in Fort Worth, while the DC note does not. When the government does it it's legal, when WE do it it's called counterfeiting... LOL.

The PROJECT (prior and NEW)
In an attempt to help currency collectors find a matching pair of notes, Mr. Ed Zegers of Maryland and Mr. Karol Winograd of Florida started a project (known as the Zegers/Winograd project) of recording all the serial numbers submitted to them by fellow collectors. The Zegers/Winograd project ceased maintaining the list in September 2021, but I stepped in and carried on where they left off. For lack of a better name, I called it "Project 2013B".

In November 2014, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing sent a request to its Washington DC facility to print a batch of dollar bills. In July 2016, the exact same request was sent to the Fort Worth facility.

This miscommunication resulted in dollars printed with duplicate serial numbers, technically counterfeiting their currency. Typically, every bill in circulation has a unique serial number to identify it.

If you are lucky enough to stumble across one of these $1 bills in your wallet, you are one step closer to cashing in. But the value of this particular misprint is in pairing it to the other bill with a matching serial number.

There have been 37 complete pairs identified so far. However, the Zegers/Winograd Project was established to catalog all the bills found and facilitate buying or selling to create a matching pair, and over 10,000 bills were identified by the project listing the current owner and serial number.