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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 648786, member: 11668&quot;]You seem to be confusing the ideas of &quot;plate position&quot; and &quot;plate number&quot;....</p><p><br /></p><p>The plate numbers identify the particular face plate and back plate used to print a given note.&nbsp; The plate position identifies where the note was located on its original sheet, and is also engraved into the face plate.&nbsp; The third printing, of the seals and serial numbers (better to just call it the &quot;overprinting&quot; now, as the new Kodachrome designs have *four* printing operations), doesn&#039;t have any of these identifying numbers in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before Series 1957, the plate position is a single letter.&nbsp; Beginning with Series 1957, the notes are printed in sheets of 32, so there aren&#039;t enough letters to label all the positions; that&#039;s why they&#039;re now letter/number pairs instead.&nbsp; (You can tell somebody doesn&#039;t know what they&#039;re talking about when they say a modern note is from e.g. &quot;position B&quot; without giving the number.&nbsp; In particular, most of the TPGs do this.)&nbsp; But these numbers only range from 1 through 4, so getting a number 1 isn&#039;t very exciting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plate numbers, on the other hand, can get well up into the thousands on some older notes.&nbsp; More recently, the BEP has decided to restart them at 1 with each new series, so they don&#039;t usually get past a few hundred.&nbsp; On the other hand, relatively short series will have mostly very low plate numbers--in the extreme case, the 1963 $2 plates only got up to 3.&nbsp; But on a relatively long series, a note with 1/1 plates might be scarce enough that some collectors would pay a slightly increased premium for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some specific notes are typically collected by plate number combinations; web notes and FW295 errors come to mind here.&nbsp; This sort of collecting usually only catches on when the set of combinations is small enough to be manageable; I&#039;m not aware of anyone trying to collect an entire $1 FRN series in such a way, or anything like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Certain individual plates are interesting because of some error or feature specific to the plate, like the aforementioned FW295 plate.&nbsp; Other examples are some of the late-finished plates in the 1934/34A notes, or the 1974 $1 back plate 905, which was misnumbered (it should have been 1905, and the number 905 is far lower than any other found on 1974 $1&#039;s).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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