2017 $1 Bill's - 2 back plate sizes

I noticed my Cleveland $1 has an extremely small back plate number -- as in type size -- compared to the past 20 years or so.

I poked around Ebay to look at other 2017s and found some locations are using the small typeface and other locals are using the larger typeface.

Is this an error? Or is it the new normal?

 

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I think it's an error, because most notes are horizontal, but yours is vertical. I wonder if they print them that way to make it hard to read & irritate my neck & eyeballs?

 

The plate number size used at Ft. Worth is a different size than the number at DC.

 

DC vs FW

 

OP’s note, reconfigured @PlanoSteve

 

Welcome to CT Christina. I hope you can take the humor some of us dish out and not be discouraged. You seem to already know about currency, so you have a leg up on many. Keep checking those bills.

 

I just noticed the same thing on my 2013 $1 bill. The back plate number is almost half the size of every other bill I have. I've been looking for about a week now at every bill I come by and this bill is still the only one. What's the story?

 

This is an older thread, from 2019. Please start a new thread and post full sized pictures of both sides. Also tell us what you see. Use the paper money forum and welcome to CT.