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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1437183, member: 11668&quot;]Nice notes, and wonderful presentation of the set!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure about your explanation of the wording on the 1934 $1.&nbsp; The point of the change from &quot;one silver dollar&quot; to &quot;one dollar in silver&quot; was that silver certificates could now be backed by *bullion*, not just coins.&nbsp; Indeed, in the great silver certificate redemptions of the &#039;60s, the Treasury ran out of silver dollars and started paying out silver bars and silver granules.&nbsp; But everything I&#039;ve read indicates that all the silver certificates were redeemed at a rate of $1.2929 per ounce, which is 0.7734 ounce per dollar--the content of a standard silver dollar, not the lesser 0.723 ounce per dollar used for the subsidiary coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want nitpicking...&nbsp; The Barr notes are Series 1963B, not 1969B.&nbsp; On page 5, there&#039;s no such thing as a 1990 $1.&nbsp; And on page 1, there were no series letters on large-size notes; those came along later, with the first small-size issues.&nbsp; So the Educational notes come with three different signature combinations, but they&#039;re all just plain Series 1896.&nbsp; (I think the champion here was the 1880 $20 USN, which lasted through *fourteen* signature combinations with no change to the series date!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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