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Message:: [QUOTE="Jamericon, post: 640795, member: 18294"]<<PMG certified my note as a mule so I will keep using the word mule. They also put "Silver Cert Back Plate" on the back of the slab.>> And with all due respect of the grading services (since I am good friends with the principals of one of them) they are NOT the people who should be teaching you about varieties. Oh, and they don't get the grading correct all the time either... Excelsior hit the nail on the head concerning the wrong use of the term "mule" in paper money. The only "true" mules in small-size are the late-finished back plates of the 1940s. These were never intended to be used together, but were for reasons that deserve another post. Also considered mules, if only in theory and not practice, are the micro to macro transition plates for early 12-subject notes bearing Julian-Morgenthau signatures. The BEP termed back plates for all denominations "uniform backs" because that is what they were - the same no matter what class was printed on the face. Remember, the reason for small-size was standardization - the BEP wanted to discontinue the practice of having to keep separate plate sequences with different designs for each class and denomination, as was required for large size. The 1957B SC/1963 FRN back plate sharing is par for the course. Imaginge treating any other back plate shared between a 1928C LT, 1934A FRN and a 1934A SC as a "mule" - it would get ridiculous.[/QUOTE]