The counterfeit-detecting pens should "work" on notes back to Series 1957, when the dry-intaglio printing process was introduced. Before that,...
It's from a run of 1,280,000 notes, which isn't too short--but it was the only run printed for the Atlanta district, so the HF..* is the scarcest...
That's just time passing. In 1960, everybody started by collecting wheat pennies out of circulation, so every kid in America knew about 1943 steel...
Same as the $2's discussed higher up the thread: Anything with the red seal/serials can be bleached to orange or yellow fairly easily. The 1963...
We've had this conversation here before. As expected, the conspiracy theorist didn't believe any source we quoted at him.... :rolleyes:
Any other sightings yet? I've still not been able to track down any besides that Ebay one....
I'm pretty sure it was the Philippine currency, printed by the BEP when the Philippines were a U.S. territory. Originally, they made those notes a...
In the old days, they only changed the series year when there was an actual design change. If only the signatures changed, then the series year...
Right--that works for anything printed in 12-subject sheets, which is Series 1928 through most of 1935D, plus 1950 (with the exception of those...
It looks like we've got another misreported star run: This Ebay auction has a star note that shouldn't exist, according to the BEP monthly...
If you click through to the linked testimony on the Federal Reserve website, there's a note that the Fed's inventory of halves is still increasing...
The missing-seal note looks like it might be a bit questionable.... There's a grayish/whitish area where the seal belongs, making it look...
We've got some confusion here between the size of an individual print run and the total number of stars printed for the district. Back in the...
Do be aware that this variety is a recent discovery--the 9th edition is the first to list it at all--so the census of known examples is going to...
It's not that hard, really. For example, the last three digits of a serial number can be anything from 000 to 999, so there are 1000...
Sure, but we'd need tens of billions of $1 coins in order to replace all the $1 notes. The Mint would have to work overtime for several years to...
Nothing's printed on the bill--it's all a sticker, using a removable adhesive (think Post-It notes). Since the sticker can be peeled off in a...
You've got to remember how much of a pain it'd be to enable changing currency designs to be accepted in the Fed/banking/vending system. Coin...
Yes, it's one more data point.... This one works out to run 18, sheet 1299. It's only the third note I've recorded from this run, and it's the...
I'm trying to work out serial ranges and printage totals for the $50 and $100 FRN stars in the 18-subject-sheet series (1950A through 1950E). The...
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