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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 985450, member: 11668&quot;]Yes, some of them *are* nonexistent: the Richmond and San Francisco printings are entirely COPE, so there are no (non-star) conventional notes for those districts.&nbsp; All of the stars in the series are conventional, though.&nbsp; And if you&#039;re willing to cheat a bit, you *can* get a conventional note from the E..A block out of an uncut sheet...but even that trick won&#039;t help you for L..A.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For those of you not following what&#039;s going on: The BEP upgraded its overprinting lines in the &#039;70s, and the result was a minor change in the font of the serial numbers.&nbsp; The COPE serials are generally bolder and thicker than the older conventional serials, and certain letters are a bit differently shaped on the two versions.&nbsp; Both styles were in use simultaneously for several years, so there&#039;s a lot of alternating back and forth between them in the serial number sequence, especially in the $1 notes.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/cope.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/cope.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> for more on these varieties.&nbsp; They were quite the craze back in the days when COPE was new--some of the smaller groups (a few of the $1 conventional groups were only 160,000 notes long!) were selling for astronomical prices for a while.&nbsp; Nowadays nobody much cares, it seems, but I still think they&#039;re kinda neat....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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