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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 845406, member: 11668&quot;]It definitely adds a substantial amount to the value.&nbsp; I&#039;m not familiar enough with the older series to give you a price estimate, but it&#039;s a significant multiple of what a consecutive pair with matching series would be worth.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Back in the old days, the BEP didn&#039;t segregate its printing plates by series or signatures; as long as the currency design itself hadn&#039;t changed, all the plates were considered interchangeable.&nbsp; Each intaglio printing press used several plates in rotation (one is inked while another is printing while another is cleaned off before the next pass...), and during a changeover from one signature combination to the next, it was entirely possible that some of the plates on a press would have different signatures than other plates on the same press.&nbsp; When the resulting stack of sheets was sent through the serialling press, the result was changeover pairs like yours, as the serial sequence kept switching back and forth between one signature combination and the other.&nbsp; (If you&#039;ve got more consecutive notes after the ones in the photo, check them and see if there are more changeovers...where there&#039;s one, there are likely to be several.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At the time, changeover pairs were probably scarce but not rare--if you worked at a bank and had access to lots of new currency, they wouldn&#039;t&#039;ve been too hard to find.&nbsp; But as I mentioned before, there were essentially no currency collectors in those days.&nbsp; So nobody was saving pairs like this at the time; the only ones that have survived are those that happened to be included in consecutive runs of notes that were saved for other reasons, such as the ones you&#039;ve got.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since the &#039;50s, the BEP hasn&#039;t mixed signature combinations this way, so changeover pairs are no longer printed.&nbsp; For several decades, the convention was to begin the serial numbering of each series at the number where the previous series had left off.&nbsp; More recently, each series just begins back at 00000001.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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