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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 646711, member: 11668&quot;]The recent ones aren&#039;t really errors...it&#039;s just that lately the BEP&#039;s been sloppier than they used to be when engraving the plate numbers on the plates, so that some of them fall closer to or farther from the letter than they used to.&nbsp; Someone started out recording these as errors until we realized that there were tons of them on many different plates, but I guess nobody ever removed those descriptions from the spreadsheet.&nbsp; (And since the face plate number is engraved 32 different times on the plate, you may very well have notes from these same face plates that *don&#039;t* exhibit any unusual spacing of the plate numbers, too....)</p><p><br /></p><p>The placement of the plate position numeral, and of the &quot;FW&quot; on Fort Worth notes, has also been more variable lately than in the past.&nbsp; For example, I&#039;ve gotten some 2003 $2&#039;s with plate position D3 where the &quot;3&quot; is engraved so high that it&#039;s basically aligned with the midline of the &quot;D&quot; rather than the baseline.&nbsp; In fact, as far as I can tell, *all* 2003 $2&#039;s with plate position D3 appear to be like this; apparently the plate position numerals are engraved in the master plate for the series.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s the most dramatic shift I&#039;ve seen, but there are similar drifiting numerals in several other positions, some of them nearly as extreme--so I don&#039;t think we can reasonably call these &quot;errors&quot; when they apparently affect well over 10% of the notes in the entire series.&nbsp; The 2003A $2 master plate has similarly sloppy plate position numerals (though they seem to be a different set than the 2003 $2 plate, I think).&nbsp; The 2003A $1 Fort Worth master plate had pretty erratic placement of the &quot;FW&quot;s, too--that one even got written up in one of the weekly publications, with a quote from the BEP to the effect that they could care less about a millimeter or two either way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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