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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1935918, member: 11668&quot;]Exactly.&nbsp; Serial number 00000000 doesn&#039;t come before 00000001; it comes at the end of the block, after 99999999.&nbsp; Really it should be 100000000 (nine digits), but the numbering head hasn&#039;t got that many number wheels.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the very old days (ending roughly in the 1930s) the BEP would actually manually number a note with the nine-digit serial 100000000 at the end of each block.&nbsp; More recently, they just allowed the numbering to roll over from 99999999 to 00000000, and then replaced 00000000 with a star note.&nbsp; Since 1977, they don&#039;t issue serial numbers all the way up to 99999999 for circulation anyway, so the problem never comes up.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This 1969A $1 note is the only known case where somebody slipped up and forgot to replace the 00000000 note by a star, so it actually got out into circulation.&nbsp; Sometimes these things happen....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In some older series, the BEP printed specimen notes with all-zero serial numbers.&nbsp; By the &#039;60s, though, specimens generally have serial number 12345678 or 23456789.&nbsp; So the 1969A $1 note in this thread wouldn&#039;t be numbered 00000000 if it were a specimen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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