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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2089051, member: 24274"]In response to my own comments early in this thread, I learned something recently from the BEP's Historic Research Center. The numbers on the back are proof numbers and the Bureau has great big record books that log each of them. But only working proofs received these numbers. Prints without them would be considered "finished products" -- sold to the public, provided to officials or included in specimen books that were given as gifts to dignitaries. After examining my "proofs" I found a good number with gilt edges and no numbers, that I presume were once pages in a book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2089051, member: 24274"]In response to my own comments early in this thread, I learned something recently from the BEP's Historic Research Center. The numbers on the back are proof numbers and the Bureau has great big record books that log each of them. But only working proofs received these numbers. Prints without them would be considered "finished products" -- sold to the public, provided to officials or included in specimen books that were given as gifts to dignitaries. After examining my "proofs" I found a good number with gilt edges and no numbers, that I presume were once pages in a book.[/QUOTE]
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