The BEP's sellouts, or lack thereof, have always seemed quite random. Look at the previous few years' $2 products, for example: 2008, 2011, and...
In order of production: 41b: Original seal. The background of the central circle, behind the shield, is solid red rather than spokes. Very few...
Yep. Judging by the plate positions, the Minneapolis and Kansas City runs appear to have been numbered from 20112001 to 20144000. Which means we...
No, because with the technology that existed in 1856, it was quite difficult to refine silver or gold to .999 fine. At that time, .999 fine...
The wonky capitalization in the mottoes on the reverse had me puzzled for a while, but I think I've got it: The large letters are Roman numerals,...
On the 12-note sheets, the alignment marks were generally located at the horizontal midline: between C and D, and between I and J. Some of the...
From a run of 2,560,000 notes. In other words, pretty common and unlikely to command a premium in well-worn condition. Wait, what? The 1981A...
It's been in the Mint's pricing grid for weeks. Assuming that the average price of gold for this week (Thursday through Wednesday) stays below...
But were they still rolling in individual design elements one at a time, as opposed to using a single master of the whole note design? I thought...
The paper expanded and shrunk multiple times, as it was dampened before each printing and dried afterwards. If you compare these two notes to...
It's just paper shrinkage. Remember, the paper was dampened before the back printing and then dried, and then dampened again before the face...
Folks, there's no need to guess...this information is in the Mint's pricing grid. Assuming the price of gold remains in its current band...
Nifty! Low and high observed serials on this mismatch are 36138136 and 36139980, only 1845 serials apart. All of the pictured notes fall within...
Thanks for the scans! :cool: The $1 sheet is a known printing, so at least *some* sheets from the same run were released to the public. (It was...
What are the serial numbers (first and last) on that sheet? I'd be very surprised if there was a printing that wasn't made available to the...
Or to summarize: YB - 3,000,000 ZB - 1,000,000 AC - 1,000,000 CC - 7,000,000 FC - 12,000 LC - 3,000,000 PC - 5,040,000 SC - 15,000,000 total -...
They were printed in the same position of consecutive sheets. One of the serialling heads got stuck on 27 while the other continued to count...
Math nerd comment: I'd suggest avoiding the use of a decimal for this purpose, because it seems to imply that the "other elements" grade is always...
Don C. Kelly wrote the book on Nationals. The book and quite a few Nationals (and other currency) are available for sale on his website,...
Hmmm...the Geithner signature on that bond is quite a bit different from the Geithner signature on currency. Maybe I'm mistaken (I don't have my...
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