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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2661165, member: 11668"]This is actually a misconception. In the small-size era, there's no such thing as a "Silver Certificate back plate"; all back plates are uniform and therefore interchangeable between types. Whenever a single denomination was being printed in multiple types, it's not hard to find notes of different types printed from the same back plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the time, nobody pays any attention to this distinction; nobody much cares if you pair up a 1928 $5 FRN and a 1929 $5 NBN with the same back plate. But for no apparent reason, some people will pay strong premiums for some 1963 $1 FRNs that share back plates with 1957B $1 SCs. Even more oddly, it only goes in one direction--I've never seen anyone pay a premium for 1957B $1 SCs that share back plates with 1963 $1 FRNs, though they're theoretically just as interesting (or just as uninteresting).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 2661165, member: 11668"]This is actually a misconception. In the small-size era, there's no such thing as a "Silver Certificate back plate"; all back plates are uniform and therefore interchangeable between types. Whenever a single denomination was being printed in multiple types, it's not hard to find notes of different types printed from the same back plate. Most of the time, nobody pays any attention to this distinction; nobody much cares if you pair up a 1928 $5 FRN and a 1929 $5 NBN with the same back plate. But for no apparent reason, some people will pay strong premiums for some 1963 $1 FRNs that share back plates with 1957B $1 SCs. Even more oddly, it only goes in one direction--I've never seen anyone pay a premium for 1957B $1 SCs that share back plates with 1963 $1 FRNs, though they're theoretically just as interesting (or just as uninteresting).[/QUOTE]
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