The plate number on the obverse of the $1 bill.... when you have 2 one dollar bills and the bills are consecutive in series would the plate numbers also be consecutive? The bill on the bottom has a plate number of FW j179 hand the bill in the series prior to that has a serial number of fwj 181.
No. There is more than one plate on the press. If you look at a new pack of notes you will see that the back plate numbers rotate.
There are exceptions to this. On occasion one may find pairs of consecutive notes that have identical back plate numbers (and possibly front as well). The typical cause seems to be when a misprinted sheet is removed and destroyed, leaving notes from an adjacent sheet with the same plate numbers to fill their place. It would also seem that the plate numbering process was different in the old days than today. I recently observed three consecutive 1963B $1 Barr notes to have completely identical back and front plate numbers. It remains to be seen if this is an anomaly or if this was the norm for back then.
The earliest 32-subject intaglio presses were single-plate models, producing a stream of sheets that all have the same plate number. I forget when the four-plate presses came along, but it was fairly early, in the '60s or '70s I think. Much more recently, about a decade ago, the BEP acquired several three-plate presses (the SOI presses).
I have a 1957 $1 bill with A3 plate number and A3 in upper left (sheet number?) is that rare? I cant find it on any other bills
Hello, what are the chances all 3 plate numbers on a dollar bill being the same number? Front letter/number, front plate serial number, and back plate serial number. Is there a market? Thanks in advance for your help
