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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;see323, post: 269606, member: 8291&quot;]<b>Beshergh </b>- First of all, welcome to cointalk. RickieB did a good explanation on what was known as fancy numbers such as solids, ladder and reverse ladder. He also added some humour into his explanation for easy digestion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I understand that you were asking about specimen with solids and ladder serial number. In fact, they were specimen notes whether they were printed with all zeros, ladder or normal serial numbers. Early Eastern European specimen notes such as Russia, chose to print specimen notes with 1234567...while in other countries, they choose to print them as 0000000. An example of specimen notes from Ireland have normal serial numbers but they are printed with the word &quot;Specimen&quot; across the note. Specimen notes were printed and issued to other countries&#039; government or monetary board for reference purposes. Some countries sell them to collectors as collector&#039;s items. Nobody knows how many of them were printed although some specimen notes were printed with an additional serial numbers at one of the corner of the note.&nbsp; A good example of large number specimen notes printed - Cuba. If you do a search in ebay, you will find huge number of Cuba specimen notes for sales. With the market force in place, they were priced cheap and lower in demand. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There was one type of specimen worth keeping. They were the printer&#039;s specimen. They usually come with a printer chop such as Thomas De La Rue etc. These were limited printer specimen notes which were taken out from the printer reference books. They were not supposed to be sold but somehow someone sold them. Usually there were only a few pieces in existence making them highly in demand and thus pricey. They were usually found in public floor auctions (not ebay or yahoo). Specimen note sometimes have punched holes to prevent them for being used in the circulation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To answer your question again, there were no distinction on the serial number whether it was all zero, ladder or normal numbers. It&#039;s the printer choice of numbers. If you happen to collect only all zeros, you will probably acquire all zeros specimen notes for your collection. I personally do not collect specimen notes unless they were printer specimen notes. Three years ago, I have three sets of Singapore specimen notes ( each set has 6 notes ), which I sold them away after keeping them for the past 20 years. I make a big loss. As what RickieB mentioned earlier, I collect solid number 555555 and sometimes 888888. These solid numbers were ordinary banknotes issued for circulation and thus with unique traceable serial number. One of the feature of banknote collecting is rarity. Since they are traceable serial number, we can account for the number of 555555 issued for circulation. For example, a Singapore Orchid $100 banknote issued from prefix A/1 to A/6, we can naturally account a total of 6 solid number with serial number 555555. It&#039;s traceable and accountable. With only 6 pieces in existence, it is considered a rare solid number banknote. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I hope I have answered your questions on specimen notes. By the way, there is a collector&#039;s website showcasing his specimen notes. I cannot remember the website url. You may want to do a google search later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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