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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 758042, member: 11668"]The $2 in the third and fourth images: blue vertical stripe in the paper, green screen across the top of the note, red seal and serials. These 1869 U.S. Notes were nicknamed the "Rainbow" series because of the heavy use of color....</p><p> </p><p>Incidentally, it's not a star note--the solid star is just the generic serial suffix character used on all notes of all denominations of this series. Many of the large-size notes used random symbols rather than letters at one or both ends of the serial numbers; compare the $5 and $1 Silver Certificates much further down the thread. Besides the 1869 USNs, all Coin Notes (Series 1890 and 1891) used the solid-star suffix. Actual large-size star notes (replacement notes) always use a hollow-centered star in the serial....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 758042, member: 11668"]The $2 in the third and fourth images: blue vertical stripe in the paper, green screen across the top of the note, red seal and serials. These 1869 U.S. Notes were nicknamed the "Rainbow" series because of the heavy use of color.... Incidentally, it's not a star note--the solid star is just the generic serial suffix character used on all notes of all denominations of this series. Many of the large-size notes used random symbols rather than letters at one or both ends of the serial numbers; compare the $5 and $1 Silver Certificates much further down the thread. Besides the 1869 USNs, all Coin Notes (Series 1890 and 1891) used the solid-star suffix. Actual large-size star notes (replacement notes) always use a hollow-centered star in the serial....[/QUOTE]
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