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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 429497, member: 11668&quot;]Everything was printed at the BEP in Washington.&nbsp; The notes were then issued to the banks in the form of six-note sheets.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you go back to the equivalent large-size notes, before 1929, then the lower two signatures--those of the officials of the individual bank--were generally not printed at the BEP.&nbsp; Small banks, that issued few notes, usually had their officers hand-sign each note; larger banks would have stamps or lithographic plates made up to apply the signatures.&nbsp; A few of the largest banks paid a fee for the BEP to engrave the signatures right into the intaglio printing plates and thus save the bank the trouble.&nbsp; When the small-size designs came out, the BEP itself began using lithographic plates for the bank titles and charter numbers, and so they included the bank officers&#039; signatures in those plates for all banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Large-size Federal Reserve Bank Notes actually say both &quot;National Currency&quot; and &quot;Federal Reserve Bank Note&quot; on them, making clear that FRBNs are a subtype of Nationals.&nbsp; The small-size FRBNs say only &quot;National Currency&quot;, mostly because they were printed as an emergency issue to get more cash into circulation during the Depression, so there wasn&#039;t time to modify the plates to show the correct type designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Type I and Type II 1929 Nationals differ primarily in the layout of the charter numbers.&nbsp; The FRBNs, of course, don&#039;t carry charter numbers at all, so they don&#039;t come in two types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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