Just wanted to share this one. One of my favorites. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/scan0043.jpg http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/scan0044.jpg clembo
WOW! Very nice note clembo! Did you have to pay extra for the serial being that low? Very nice note clembo. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Phoenix
Naw, Got it in change at McDonalds actually. LOL Yes, I did pay a premium about 8 or 9 years ago. That note (without the low serial number) may have run me $35-40. I paid $70. What I looked at was that it was an A-A block for the 1934 series (which also draws a premium). Being the A-A block this was the 605th note printed of the entire series. Currency's version of a first strke as it is.
Well, to be specific about it, it was the 639395th note to receive an overprinting, since serial numbers start at the top and work their way backwards so the notes in a strap have increasing serial numbers. Since the pallets of 20,000 pages are flipped as a whole between the first and second printing, this may have been the 605th note to receive the first printing (the reverse). But of course try an explain all that to a layman the signficance of a note with serial number A00640000A. "Honest, it's the first finished note to come off the press, really!!, well sort of, 15 other notes were finished at the exact same time too, but their serial numbers are all over the place."
clembo, very nice note and thanks for sharing. And thanks for the lesson. It never crossed my mind that a A-A block was the first printing for the silver certificates. Lou
Great technical details Gatzdon provided...and I must say what a wonderful note you have there Clembo... A drop of drool just hit the space bar!! ;RickieB
While I would love to find an A00640000A note of any type/series, I have to admit that the low numbers are much more attractive.
Very nice details provided gatzdon! excellent note clembo! as RickieB mentioned something about drool ... i must get a towel ....
