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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1548953, member: 11668&quot;]Yes, that&#039;s how the notes were packaged for many years.&nbsp; Each 100 notes were in a paper strap, and then forty of those straps were placed between two wooden blocks held together with steel bands.&nbsp; The whole 4000-note brick was then wrapped in brown paper.&nbsp; There was an outer label on the paper wrapper, and an inner label on the front wooden block.&nbsp; The labels showed the serial number range for the brick, and some folks collect &quot;label sets&quot;: the label(s) with the first and last notes of the brick.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the serial number 00300000 is a multiple of 4000, yes, your note would have been the last note of its brick, packaged right against the wooden block.&nbsp; That might (or might not) be the source of the crumple....</p><p><br /></p><p>Starting in the late &#039;80s (plus or minus a few years?) they switched to plastic shrink-wrap packaging.&nbsp; They also added a 1000-note packaging level: they now wrap ten 100-note straps into a bundle, and then four bundles into a brick.&nbsp; The Fed seems to send currency to banks primarily in bundle form, so you don&#039;t often see a 4000-note package these days.&nbsp; People still collect label sets, but they&#039;re nearly always labels from 1000-note bundles, not 4000-note bricks.&nbsp; (On the other hand, I&#039;ve seen at least one original-BEP-wrapped 16,000-note package of modern $1&#039;s for sale on Ebay, so they&#039;re apparently obtainable somehow....)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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