Also, the latest edition of S&L is, what, six or seven years old now? Could just be that prices aren't what they used to be....
Well, I don't know much about lightning strikes, so I can't be sure this is the right explanation, but.... Mathematically, it's probably taking...
If the notes are from the 1953 or 1963 series, the AA block was the only block printed (aside from star notes), as the quantity printed was too...
That's run #9 (3.2 million) if we're being technical. A full run of star notes is 3.2 million notes; printings larger than that are several runs...
This is actually a misconception. In the small-size era, there's no such thing as a "Silver Certificate back plate"; all back plates are uniform...
Definitely not. It's not easy to find 100 buyers for the 100 individual notes, and so whoever breaks up the strap and does all that work is going...
Right. Back then, there weren't hard breaks between one lettered series and the next; the BEP would mix old-series and new-series sheets freely...
Exactly--this happens when the bad notes are caught before the sheets have been cut. In that case, the sheet containing the bad note is replaced...
The text on the band is the same text used on all packs of notes, yes. But the candy-stripe edges of these bands are disinctive, only used for...
It's varied enormously over the years--the star rate tends to spike every time the BEP adopts new printing technology, and then slowly drift...
Sounds good so far. Here I think you've gotten in trouble, because (a) two of the 16 binaries are solids, and (b) it doesn't matter which digit...
Well, if we simplify matters by pretending that they actually print all serials from 00000001 to 99999999, then in that block of 99,999,999...
The second printing is missing and the third printing is incomplete. If it's an error, it's two separate errors on the same note, which is highly...
Agreed, but an interesting observation I don't know how to explain: Ever since LEPE overprinting came along, this overinking of the *third* digit...
Some of them have sold for quite high prices online. It's not entirely clear why. One theory is that perhaps somebody's been spreading rumors...
I don't know a precise date, but doing a quick Google search for "missing magnetic ink" errors, the oldest example I could turn up was Series...
Pretty sure somebody just put a rubber stamp on the bill, similar to the one that's on the back. The stamp ink didn't adhere very well to the...
No, leftover star notes from one series can be used as replacements in the next series, provided there hasn't been a design change. It would be...
If an error note is discovered in the final inspection, after the regular notes have already been cut and strapped, then the BEP just replaces the...
Cool! I've added the K..R block to the listing on the website. That makes sixteen blocks observed, which means there almost certainly won't be...
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