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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2687615, member: 11668&quot;]Gotta be never released.&nbsp; Stuff shipped overseas doesn&#039;t vanish; it often gets into the collector market more readily than stuff shipped to U.S. banks, because (in general, with exceptions) foreign banks are more likely to allow their employees to comb through the money for anything interesting and sell it to a currency dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that the 2013 $100 is back in production, it&#039;ll be interesting to see whether any of them finally appear in circulation, and if they do, whether any of the early printings from 2014-15 are among them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the series-dating rules...yeah, the BEP has been making stuff up.&nbsp; But that&#039;s not a new phenomenon; there are inconsistencies going back decades, if you pay close attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably the earliest example:&nbsp; In the 1928 series, each denomination/type started out as &quot;Series 1928&quot; when it was first printed, even though they weren&#039;t all started at the same time.&nbsp; So for example the 1928 $2 USN has Tate-Mellon signatures, but no $5 USNs were printed with those signatures.&nbsp; So when the White-Mellon signatures came along, we got 1928A $2&#039;s but just 1928 $5&#039;s.&nbsp; The $2&#039;s and $5&#039;s remained one letter off each other for years; by the time we got to Clark-Snyder, the $2 was 1928G and the $5 was 1928F.&nbsp; BUT, in later years the BEP seems to have decided that that was too confusing--there were no $50&#039;s or $100&#039;s in Series 1963 (Granahan-Dillon), but the next series (Granahan-Fowler) is still called Series 1963A in all denominations.&nbsp; So there are 1963A $50&#039;s even though there are no 1963 $50&#039;s.&nbsp; Much more recently, there are 2004A $10&#039;s even though there are no 2004 $10&#039;s...which is consistent with how it worked for 1963, but not consistent with how it worked for 1928.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, every time they need a new series, somebody at the BEP comes up with a designation for it; and if a weird situation comes up, they don&#039;t always stop to ask how their predecessors handled a vaguely similar situation decades ago.&nbsp; So the broad outlines of the dating are consistent over time, but the details definitely aren&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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