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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2656766, member: 11668"]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 until all the old-series printing plates finally wore out. So we can tell you the overall serial range for the 1928-1928G star notes, but we can't break it down into ranges for the individual series, because there are significant overlaps.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best you can do is to record serial numbers from a whole lot of observed notes, and begin to work up estimates based on the highest and lowest serials ever seen on, say, a 1928F star note. Even then, you have to be careful, because there are going to be some 1928E and 1928G stars that fall within that same range too.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the same is true for the non-star notes of these series. If you have production figures for the individual series of 1928-1928G $2 non-star notes, those are also somebody's estimates, based on observed serial numbers. Not until the Series 1935D-1935E transition did we start to get hard serial number breaks between series, where we can say that the 1935D notes ended at N46944000G and the 1935E notes started at N46944001G.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2656766, member: 11668"]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 until all the old-series printing plates finally wore out. So we can tell you the overall serial range for the 1928-1928G star notes, but we can't break it down into ranges for the individual series, because there are significant overlaps. The best you can do is to record serial numbers from a whole lot of observed notes, and begin to work up estimates based on the highest and lowest serials ever seen on, say, a 1928F star note. Even then, you have to be careful, because there are going to be some 1928E and 1928G stars that fall within that same range too. By the way, the same is true for the non-star notes of these series. If you have production figures for the individual series of 1928-1928G $2 non-star notes, those are also somebody's estimates, based on observed serial numbers. Not until the Series 1935D-1935E transition did we start to get hard serial number breaks between series, where we can say that the 1935D notes ended at N46944000G and the 1935E notes started at N46944001G.[/QUOTE]
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