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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1335805, member: 11668"]Like you said, the BEP no longer worries about shipping newly printed currency to the "correct" FRB.  So if you're in the western half of the country, you'll usually get whatever $1's Fort Worth has been printing lately, even if they're not labelled for your home FRB district.  Typically FW prints $1's for the western districts and DC for the eastern districts, so in California you might see K's or H's, but you won't usually see A's or C's. But the BEP's schedule has been weird lately what with DC devoting so much of its time to the Kodachrome $100's and then the 2006A $100's.  For over a year (June '09 - August '10) FW was handling *all* production of $1's, which meant that any area of the country might well receive $1's on any district.  That got everyone good and mixed up....  More recently, DC has started printing $1's again, but the distribution pipeline is still probably pretty scrambled. I'm not sure how DC-printed $1's end up in California as a result of all of that.  Maybe FW ran a bit behind on a shipment, so some extra $1's had to be moved from another FRB, and they happened to be DC printings.  As long as FW keeps on printing $1's, the west coast will probably get its $1's preferentially from FW; I'm guessing your DC $1's are just a quirk, not a trend.[/QUOTE]