On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
somewhere). Does the US Treasury issue replacement notes if the originals are damaged in printing, or does it just destroy the notes and leave it at that?
Don't know.
But certainly a dollar bill burned up as part of this protocol is unknown to them, and would of course never be reprinted (print runs are obviously done in large batches, with auto-indexing of numbers across sheets, so "one-offs" would never be done anyway).
Theoretically they will replace old currency with new currency if they can recover 75% or some such high value of the surface area. Carefully cut out the serial numbers and burn only them, then turn the damaged bills back in for replacement (or give them away for someone else to do - I think it is another one of those felonies to intentionally deface currency). You could also derive a number from the absolute time and location of the issuer with a GPS device.