It's a good bit more complex than that.... In the earliest years of the Mint, they usually punched the current year into the dies when they were...
Sheets of star notes often have low-ish numbers, because they usually represent leftovers from the star runs printed for circulation. Sheets of...
The printing plates are all duplicated from the same master, though, and they don't have nearly that much variation. But these bills have been...
This one's iffy. The U.S. government never struck $50's for circulation, but several private mints in California did so in the 1850s, before the...
These days it's more common to see full straps of star notes, but it's still possible to get a few stars mixed into a strap of regular notes, yes.
That's how the BEP packages them. Some banks break them down into smaller batches, though, especially where higher denominations are concerned.
The Kodachrome $100, due out next year, is going to have an embedded strip with holographic images that appear to move when the note is tilted....
Note that that $10 is from an extremely short print run of only 128,000 star notes. It might manage to fetch some premium over face value even in...
Fifty rubles from Belarus. (I knew those college courses in Russian would be good for something someday.... :rolleyes:)
None yet, anyway. If that holds up, it'll be the first series with no stars since the 1966A $100's. But it's still possible that the BEP will...
Printage data for the uncut sheets is difficult to find, since the BEP hasn't included them in the monthly production reports since the mid-'80s....
No. In the old days, *any* signature change got a letter, even if it was a change of both signatures. Witness e.g. the 1957 (Priest-Anderson)...
Right. And besides, this is a National. They were actually issued to the banks in sheet form, and the bank was responsible for the signing and...
Yes, but let's not confuse modern notes with older ones while we're doing it. :cool: Plate numbers on modern notes come in two sizes, but...
Eh...now you've made me go and look this all up.... :rolleyes: Looks like the AA..A combination was used on $20's, $50's, and $100's; the BB..B...
The first B means that it's Series 1999. The second B (and also the B2 below the serial number) means that it's issued by the the New York FRB...
Yes, it won't be there, but no, this isn't the last series without it. Series 1950E is also missing the motto. The motto wasn't added to any...
Specifically: the 1869 Legal Tender Notes of all denominations (such as this $20), and the 1890 and 1891 Coin Notes of all denominations, used the...
There's some historical justification for this, though. Long before TPGs for currency existed, some folks would take old uncut sheets of...
Sounds good, yeah. Thanks for passing the word along. :cool: I'm actually trying to put together a few articles on the star note serial...
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