Question # 2: What was the first series of US paper money to be completly engraved and printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing? Answer: First Series of Fractional Currency (or Postage Currency) in 1863. Five of the participants answered this question correctly. Let me know by PM if you are OK with posting a table of the participants and the running score. Here is question #3: At the request of the BEP, between 192-1918 the Treasury Department used a certain process on US paper money that would be frowned upon by collectors if done today. What was the process? The deadline for answering is 8:00PM Central Monday January 30, 2012. The Rules: 1. The contest will consist of a series of 20 questions about the BEP and its history. 2. One question will be posted at a time and run for five days. The closing date and time will be listed with the question. 3. Answers must be private messaged to me prior to the deadline. Answers received after the deadline will not be counted. Please do not answer on the board. 4. The correct answer will be posted when the time for answering has expired. 5. The person who answers the most questions correctly will win the first prize consisting of (1) the Durst reprint of the BEP Centennial book, (2) a CD-Rom of the Pick Catalog of World Paper Money Modern Issues and (3) a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. Second prize will be the same without the Durst reprint book. Third prize will only be a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. 6. If there is a tie at the end, the prize will go to the person who answered the first question correctly in the least amount of time. 7. I am the sole judge as to interpretation of the rules and whether an answer is correct.
