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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2307815, member: 11668"]Okay, so three of y'all have received K..K sheets. I need to update the website with that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Has anybody seen suffix G, H, or J yet? They don't seem to have appeared on Ebay, unless my search missed them. But a lot of the Ebay sheets seem to be stock photos now; there are a K..F sheet and a K..I sheet that each appear in several different auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because coins are recognised by their size, shape, and composition, while paper money is recognised by its design. You can put any design at all on a quarter, and it'll still work in every vending machine and coin counter in the country. But if you change the design of a banknote, all the automated currency-processing equipment has to be reprogrammed to accept the new version. For a limited-edition commemorative, that reprogramming almost certainly wouldn't be worthwhile--so the commemorative notes wouldn't work in vending machines or self-checkouts, would be rejected by banks' currency counters, and would likely even require special handling at the Federal Reserve. In other words, they'd be far more trouble than they'd be worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2307815, member: 11668"]Okay, so three of y'all have received K..K sheets. I need to update the website with that one. Has anybody seen suffix G, H, or J yet? They don't seem to have appeared on Ebay, unless my search missed them. But a lot of the Ebay sheets seem to be stock photos now; there are a K..F sheet and a K..I sheet that each appear in several different auctions. Because coins are recognised by their size, shape, and composition, while paper money is recognised by its design. You can put any design at all on a quarter, and it'll still work in every vending machine and coin counter in the country. But if you change the design of a banknote, all the automated currency-processing equipment has to be reprogrammed to accept the new version. For a limited-edition commemorative, that reprogramming almost certainly wouldn't be worthwhile--so the commemorative notes wouldn't work in vending machines or self-checkouts, would be rejected by banks' currency counters, and would likely even require special handling at the Federal Reserve. In other words, they'd be far more trouble than they'd be worth.[/QUOTE]
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