**Star Note** 1935A $1 Silver Certificate Hawaii WWII Emergency Currency Grades vf+. FR-2300* Signatures of ...

**Star Note** 1935A $1 Silver Certificate Hawaii WWII Emergency Currency Grades vf+. FR-2300* Signatures of Julian & Morgenthau WWII Emergency Currency. Unlike most star notes that were printed from *00000001A to whatever, the Hawaii one dollar stars start at *64812000 and go to at least *91140000A. If you do the math, there were a total of 204,000 $1 Hawaii star notes printed. Sadly, due to that odd range, there are not any low serial number one dollar Hawaii star notes floating around. It was the darkest days of World War II, just after Pearl Harbor. Everybody in Hawaii was sitting on pins and needles. Were the Japanese preparing a massive invasion of the islands? If they did invade, they could use the millions of dollars in currency on the islands to buy war material. To thwart this, these $1 Federal Reserve Notes were sent to the islands. Each has a large HAWAII printed on the reverse. If the Japanese did invade, the currency would be demonetized. After the threat passed, most of these "Hawaii" Notes were destroyed. Today they're hard to find.