Some, but that's going to be true (to some extent) of any reference you use. S&L has some glitches, but it's not bad overall; it's gone through...
On the 1902 Nationals there's actually a meaning to the change: they started using the blue seal in 1908 when they started printing the Date Back...
Yes, that's how the notes were packaged for many years. Each 100 notes were in a paper strap, and then forty of those straps were placed between...
That's the plate date, but it's only slightly less useless than the series date if you're trying to figure out when the note was actually printed....
Yes, there's still a bias in favor of shipping notes to the "correct" district when that happens to be convenient. That's especially true for the...
The "printing presses" involved in QE3 are entirely metaphorical. When the Fed buys billions of dollars worth of securities, it doesn't pay for...
Assuming I can interpret the question correctly.... Up until 1983, the BEP always sent newly printed Federal Reserve Notes to their "home"...
What series are you looking at? For older notes, the S&L book gives the low/high reported serials, because official serial data on some older...
Nobody has any idea, and the BEP hasn't given anything resembling a coherent answer in response to inquries. The best explanation I've got, for...
Check that figure: I think you want 1,872,012. :cool:
This is not a mule. Ever since the Fort Worth BEP began production during Series 1988A, they've used extra-large back plate numbers, so that...
Since the BEP started selling uncut sheets of $20's, there have only been six blocks issued: 1996 AL..* 2004 EA..* 2004A GA..* 2006 IB..A 2009...
Yes, read the GAO report. But actually *read* it; don't just look at the title and the summary. That report is where I got the information in my...
Your assumptions are wrong. :cool: The government doesn't "borrow" Federal Reserve Notes. Rather, the Federal Reserve buys up government bonds...
No, the 1995 $5 has the "USA 5" polymer strip embedded in the paper. Series 1988A was the last time the $5 was printed on...
Yes, frequently, although I'm a bit surprised to see that they've held on to these for as long as fourteen years. These low serials in the 1995...
A bit more detail: On older notes like this 1988A, the overprint has two parts: (a) the green seal and serial numbers; (b) the black seal and...
True, but they wouldn't actually have had to go through that formal process in order to obtain the gold. Any bank would've been happy to exchange...
No, it's a genuine and perfectly unremarkable $5 bill. The only question is why the seller thinks it's an error....
To which might be added the $2 USN, first delivered March 11, 1964, and the $1 SC, first delivered September 9, 1957. (The latter were Series...
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