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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 926480, member: 11668&quot;]Look at the seller&#039;s other items--he&#039;s got quite a lot of random-looking matched-serial pairs, too, like <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/MATCHING-1957A-1-SILVER-CERT-2003A-2-0261-3877-/380173956714?cmd=ViewItem&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item588422366a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/MATCHING-1957A-1-SILVER-CERT-2003A-2-0261-3877-/380173956714?cmd=ViewItem&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item588422366a" rel="nofollow">two different notes with serial 02613877</a>.&nbsp; He&#039;s been selling pairs like this for years.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It seems like just about every pair consists of one slightly-collectible note (like a recent-series star note or circulated silver certificate) and one CU note that&#039;s got no claims to collectibility at all.&nbsp; So my guess is, this guy&#039;s got a hoard of thousands of slightly-collectible notes, and he&#039;s got all their serials entered in a database.&nbsp; Then he goes to the bank, gets a few bricks of $1&#039;s or $2&#039;s, and checks them against his database for matches.&nbsp; If you do the math, the matched pairs would actually be surprisingly easy to find, once he&#039;d got the startup work done of gathering and indexing several dozen thousand serial numbers....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve seen these &quot;mirror&quot; pairs offered before, but I guess they&#039;re a somewhat logical extension of the same phenomenon.&nbsp; I agree that the term &quot;radar&quot; doesn&#039;t apply, though....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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