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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 283071, member: 66&quot;]Series dates are not like the dates you see on coins.&nbsp; They have very little to do with when the notes were issued.&nbsp; Up until some time in the 1980&#039;s this was how the rule went.</p><p><br /></p><p>The series date was the year in which either a major change was approved in the design, or if BOTH the signatures of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the US changed.&nbsp; If just one signature changed then the letter after the series date was changed.&nbsp; So for your note the last major change occurred in 1934 when both signatures changed from W O Woods/Ogden L Mills to W A Julian/Henry Morgenthau.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then sometime between then and 1945 they must have made a change in the design (I don&#039;t know what it was) and the series was changed to 1934 A&nbsp; (It was a minor change so the series date did not change).&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In mid-1945 Morgenthau resigned and was replaced by Fred M Vinson.&nbsp; Notes with the W A Julian/Fred M Vinson signatures came out in 1946 as Series 1934 B.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vinson only stayed in office until June of 1946 when he was replaced by John W Snyder.&nbsp; Notes with the Julian/Snyder signatures came out in 1947 as 1934 C.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julian resigned in May 1949 and was replaced by Georgia Neese Clark.&nbsp; Series 1934 D with Clark,Snyder began coming out in late 1949 or early 1950.</p><p><br /></p><p>During 1950 the designs were apparently changed and a new series 1950 with the Clark/Snyder signature.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1934 C was a case where they did not follow their rules.&nbsp; In July of 1948 they made a major change in the back design of the twenty.&nbsp; On the old design there are only three rather small trees around the White House nd the one at the right covers the right hand edge of the building.and it is in front of the wing on that side.&nbsp; Your note is of the new design with no tree out front on the right and the right edge of the main building visible.&nbsp; Both of these designs were used for the 1934 C series.&nbsp; If they had followed the rules they should have changed the series to Series 1948.</p><p><br /></p><p>From all this we can narrow the issue time of your note down to sometime between May 1948 and sometime in 1950.&nbsp; (My earlier post about the end time of the 34 C series was in error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the mid 1980s the new rule is the series date changes if there is a major change in the design, or if the Secretary of the Treasury changes.&nbsp; Changes of the Treasurer will mean a change in the series letter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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