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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 8881349, member: 130786&quot;]The Bird Series $2 was the last of its kind &amp; had a long fairly problem-free run which means they issued them in the billions. Many non-collectors kept them too so that doesn&#039;t help their weak book value. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first Crow-Bouey ARX replacement had nearly 1.3M &amp; there were 64,000 notes numbered above 1.34M that have a great premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a common ARX replacement with the 2nd Thiessen-Crow (nearly 1M printed).&nbsp; About 80,000 notes numbered below 1.34M were issued (which the example is not) &amp; they&#039;re the ones to find</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1521184[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1521187[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Something odd happened at the end of the Crow-Bouey run with the last 7 (AUG-AUM) prefixes.&nbsp; Crow-Bouey signatures are the majority for AUG, AUH &amp; AUJ but much later the odd Thiessen-Crow signature appeared with the AUG, AUH &amp; AUJ prefixes. This was not expected so these scarce notes can fetch thousands in VG &amp; higher condition. Crow-Bouey &amp; Thiessen Crow with the above 7 last prefixes (majority) are a bit tough &amp; can still fetch about $70-$90 in Choice to Gem UNC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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