Will never happen--it's way too expensive to make a new master printing plate just to produce a few thousand notes. The Series 2003A note in the...
The BEP's sellouts, or lack thereof, seem to be very unpredictable. They've been doing these "year" $2's since 2008, and some of them have sold...
Canada's experience was almost 30 years ago, when (1) metals prices were a lot lower than today, so the switch made more sense, and (2) debit...
Notice that the Fed paper I linked explicitly makes that assumption--that none of the coins will need to be replaced during the 30-year period...
They might be--this Triple Deuce Set doesn't contain a 2003A $2 I..D note, and the printing that produced the 2011, 2012, and 2013 notes in that...
I've got one in my wallet, yes. They've been out since last fall in some places; I only started seeing them here a few weeks ago, but I thought I...
There will probably be 2009 $1's in production for some time yet--the BEP has to use up its remaining supplies of 32-subject $1 paper, and so...
Remember we're talking about *average* lifespan, not maximum lifespan. You can still find 1984 quarters that are in great shape, but what...
I don't even know where to start.... A quarter is 1/4 of a dollar, not 1/25. Likewise a "20" coin would be 1/5 of a whole, not 1/20. Some of...
Yes. The Fed estimates that the $1 bill is more economical than the $1 coin as long as the bill lasts at least 4.75 years--and the latest figures...
Yes. The $1, $2, $5, $10, and $20 are all in production as Series 2013 now, but the $5 was the first. The $50 and $100 still haven't made the...
The Federal Reserve stopped ordering $1 coins for circulation in 2011, since they already had piles and piles of them that nobody wanted. If...
I'm surprised they're still able to keep that one up. The 2013 $1 is just now getting into production, but the 2013 $5 has been in print since...
That's essentially what *did* happen in the 1960s. As the market price of silver rose toward and then above the official level of $1.29 per...
Yes, those are frequently mistaken for star replacement notes. Sometimes dealers even advertise them as such--one hopes this is done out of...
All of the above is from conversations with Doug Murray, who's more or less responsible for getting all of these detailed varieties into the...
Okay, here's too much information: :cool: The first ~12,000 notes of Series 1 used the "original seal" (the circular background just behind the...
Yeah, that's a C, as the grading service noted on the holder ("pp C" next to the serial number means "plate position C"). Some of the later...
The torch, and all of the other background-color elements, are part of the underprint--applied before any of the intaglio printings. Then the...
Four on a sheet, A-B-C-D. What have you seen with an E? Not an 1862 $1....
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