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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 510701, member: 11668&quot;]That started with the first small-size notes, Series 1928.&nbsp; On large-size notes, there are never any leading zeroes in the serial numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s less widely known, though, that the length of serial numbers was actually standardized a couple of years before the small-size notes came out.&nbsp; During 1927 and 1928, the BEP started each new block at serial 10000001 instead of at 1, thus skipping all the serials with fewer than eight digits!</p><p><br /></p><p>The only serial with *more* than eight digits, the block-ending number 100000000, kept right on in use anyway.&nbsp; It was even used on some early small-size notes, clear into Series 1934, before the BEP gave up on it and started using a star note for the the note after 99999999.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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