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Message:: [QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2083954, member: 24274"]It's been a bit quiet on the forum lately, so I guess it's time to bump this thread and post a few more additions I've made. The first should be reconizable to most folks here -- Monticello, from the back of the small size $2 U.S. Note. The more closely I examine this one the more impressed I am with the engraving. It's a very nice piece of work. This one has a proof number on the back of 940642A. As far as I know, only the BEP stamped numbers on the reverse, so if you find others like this you can be pretty certain they are from the Bureau. The BEP's Historic Research Center keeps logs of when each proof number was pulled. This one was from Jan. 2, 1948, well after the first small $2 in 1928, so it was pulled for a different purpose. I also asked what the "A" suffix indicated and learned that the BEP started over in its numbering sequence, some time after it hit a million. One more interesting note is that this proof was reported destroyed a few weeks after being logged. To quote my contact at the HRC: "I guess that didn't happen!"[ATTACH=full]388361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]388362[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]388363[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]