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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1933463, member: 11668&quot;]The red overprint of the bank name must have been done privately, yes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The blue Treasury serial was normal for a while; the serialling of the Original Series Nationals was a bit weird.&nbsp; The first million sheets got red serials without letters.&nbsp; The next million got blue serials without letters.&nbsp; At that point the BEP realized that they couldn&#039;t keep switching colors every million sheets, so they introduced prefix letters instead; the third million sheets got red serials beginning with &#039;A&#039;, the fourth million with &#039;B&#039;, and so on.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So if you look this note up in a census, the serial will be recorded as &quot;143939 blue&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s because there was also a 143939 in the previous (red) block.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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