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<p>[QUOTE="harrync, post: 2410177, member: 58588"]Help me out here. When you say "...a copy of the design", do you mean they engraved a new master die, and didn't start with the original master die? When the BEP was reprinting old large size US currency, they took the original master die and made new working dies, so the reprint was virtually identical to a circulating note. They were uniface on card stock, of course, and usually there was no plate number, and sometimes the die had some damage - hey, they were 100 years old or so - or was incomplete, but it started with the ORIGINAL master die from the 1800's or early 1900's.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="harrync, post: 2410177, member: 58588"]Help me out here. When you say "...a copy of the design", do you mean they engraved a new master die, and didn't start with the original master die? When the BEP was reprinting old large size US currency, they took the original master die and made new working dies, so the reprint was virtually identical to a circulating note. They were uniface on card stock, of course, and usually there was no plate number, and sometimes the die had some damage - hey, they were 100 years old or so - or was incomplete, but it started with the ORIGINAL master die from the 1800's or early 1900's.[/QUOTE]
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