Are the letters in the dates, for example, 1928A,1928B etc the branch reserve bank? A for Boston etc.
No, the letters after the date signify a minor alteration to the note. Back then, the date is only changed for a major design change, a letter after the date signified a minor design change. I believe that one on the signatures was considered a major change the other was a minor change...but I can't remember which is which. There is nothing on the note about the banks.
I love to sit in the background and see everyone answer the questions that are asked by the people on this board. It seems that within one or two replys you get the correct answer. This one is also correct Great going. Dean 295
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For small size silver certificates, the change in the series letter was usually the result of the change in either the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Treasury. Silver certificates were direct obligations of the US Treasury so the Federal Reserve Banks and their branches played no role in the issuing of silver certificates.
I had read some place that a change in one of the signers (Treasure?) was only denoted by a letter change after the date but a change in the other (Secretary of the Treasury?) was considered a major change and thus a date change. I could have the backwards though. But, looking at the dates of SC's...it looks like that was not the case. Was this only true of FRNs? I know that in the 1970s (1974 I believe) it was changed and both signatures are now considered a major change.
