Maybe not long at all, especially if it was a dealer rather than a collector. Keep in mind that there are only 9999 different radar serials...
The 1988A $1 D..B isn't a sheet-only block, and the printage of sheets in this block doesn't seem particularly low, so I'm thinking this is a...
They *do* print them for general circulation. Ask for them at your bank--and if they don't have them, ask them to order some. The Federal...
Speelman was in office from 1922 to 1927. If your bill has Jefferson on it, then it's a Series 1917 U.S. Note; if it has Washington, then it's a...
Also, that note on Ebay didn't sell for more because it's certified; it sold for more because it's nicer than average even for an uncirculated...
The H's were issued in a two-note "lucky money" set that included both the H2008xxxxD and also a matching H8888xxxxC. Separately, the BEP has...
And they've only been issued for ten Fed districts so far, too--there haven't been any I's or J's released. Now that it's no longer 2008, I'm...
Nice. And even if you don't manage to get that 1950E star, do you think you could check the serial number? There's a good chance it'd help with...
Yep. The 1950-dated notes were printed on the BEP's older 18-subject-sheet wet-intaglio presses, while the 1963-dated notes were printed on the...
Right...the latest $2 printing is Series 2003A, which were printed in the summer/fall of 2006. There were about 230 million $2's in that batch,...
If I had to guess, I'd say sometime next fall, but that's a complete wild guess at this point. Before the new series can go to press, we'll need...
Stars from short runs are generally more valuable than stars from longer runs, yes. Best of all are the stars where *all* the runs for that...
Yes, it's from a run of 160,000. But that's a *small* number, in fact the shortest run of the 2003A $100 series. A full print run of stars would...
Sigh.... :( Somehow or other, I've really got to find a way to make it clearer what that survey is about. The serial ranges listed in the table...
I don't think so.... I think the stuff that's not the same on every note is still engraved by hand. Remember that discussion a couple of years...
You want to be careful with the term "Treasury Note"; it appears on several different unrelated issues. The earliest Legal Tender Notes were...
When the small-size notes first came out in 1929, there were five neatly distinguished types: Gold Certificates (yellow seal) Federal Reserve...
As Camaro said, they're the printing plate numbers. The BEP's current generation of presses use four plates in rotation, so if you'd gotten more...
The background tints are the first thing printed on the paper. So if this note *is* a printing error, then it would've had to make its way...
No, the federal government is not a state. The point of the quoted clause is that the *states* aren't allowed to issue their own coins or paper...
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