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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 647542, member: 11668&quot;]&quot;Inside&quot;?&nbsp; I wish....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The information about the planned 2009 and 2010 printings comes from the Fed&#039;s <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/2009newcurrency.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/2009newcurrency.htm" rel="nofollow">2009 New Currency Budget</a>.&nbsp; It&#039;s rather dense with statistics and jargon, but there&#039;s a lot of good information in there if you wade through it all.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stuff about $2 collector products is speculation (hence the &quot;presumably&quot; and &quot;probably&quot;), but it&#039;s based on knowledge of how the BEP&#039;s operated in the past.&nbsp; There were collector sheets of 1976 $2&#039;s printed into the mid-&#039;90s, and sheets of 1995 $2&#039;s printed up to 2003, even long after the signatures on the plates were obsolete.&nbsp; So it doesn&#039;t seem that the BEP thinks it&#039;s worthwhile to make up a new master plate for collector printings alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>And about the &quot;2010&quot; $2 idea: If you look at the notes that&#039;ve been issued already, for each district, serials 20080000 to 20080999 come from plate position A1, 20081000 to 20081999 from position B1, and so on: 1000 notes per position.&nbsp; That means that the ten thousand &quot;2008&quot; notes only used plate positions A1 through B2, leaving us to wonder what was done with the rest of the sheet.&nbsp; The &quot;2009&quot; notes seem to have answered that question: they come from the next ten positions, C2 through D3.&nbsp; So they appear to have been printed back in 2008, in the same print runs that produced the &quot;2008&quot; notes.&nbsp; That still leaves twelve positions of each sheet open, so my guess would be that serials 2010xxxx were printed too.&nbsp; I could be completely wrong here, but it looks like a logical inference to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that clears things up.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t intend to be mysterious or anything....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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