A teller at work today got this in her drawer and I bought it from her. It's not in great condition so I'm not sure it's worth saving. Any input? I've never had one this old so not sure.
KD... That note is a Series 1934A "Late Finished Back" note! In VF it's value is aprox $100. I would say this note is not in VF condition but still well worth keeping and value is over face for sure!! Great catch!! You folks who work in the Bank's are lucky to get to go thru so much $$$$$$$.. Check out the back plate # 204 for verification!! RickieB
I am confused...how are you figuring out that it's a #204 back when she only posted a photo of the face?
maybe he was asking if it was a 204? according to the schwartx/lindquist book, looking at the serial ranges, it couldnt be a back plate of 204, they were all LB blocks... the 1934A L district printed L17570455A to L35359756B ... the late finished back #204 went from L02269795B to L84396375B... did they use the serial number twice in that series? or is the late finished back designation for a block with the regular 1934A series?
It seems that I made a mistake on the Letters on the SN folk's. My apologies. When looking this up this morning in S/L 8th edition I thought I read a LA instead of what it should be "LB".....so KD sorry to get your hopes up, my information was a reading error. :crying: Thanks for the catch Gentlemen, I appreciate it very much! Regards, RickieB
The L02269795B and L84396375B are the lowest and highest known serials with the #204 back plate, but very few of the serials in between used this plate. (If there'd been 82 million of these printed, they wouldn't be worth much!) A lot of the older varieties work this way: the mule and nonmule notes came mixed together in consecutive BEP straps, and so did the wide and narrow notes a few years later. Even the different series (A, B, C, ...) got mixed before the serials were overprinted, which is why you can find so many changeover pairs (and reverse changeover pairs) where two consecutive notes have different series.
