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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 966888, member: 17469&quot;]Thanks Rickie!</p><p><br /></p><p>The numbering is hugely complicated on the French-printed notes, because the rules were changed all the time. But in a general way, those codes (Z.5, Q.1, etc) are the high-order counters for the serial number. For example, many French notes will start with A.1, and then 100,000 notes will be printed as A.1. Then they go to B.1 and print another 100,000, etc. A.2 comes after Z.1, and off they go. So one can get a feel for how many notes were printed by doing some math (assuming you have one of the later notes). You can see the full serial number at the top center of the note, and then the low 5 digits (the part that cycles every 100,000 notes) in the bottom right corner. If you stare at the high order digits of the s/n (chopping off the lower 5), and know that they don&#039;t use &quot;I&quot; so they have only 25 letters in the alphabet, you can probably convince yourself that you can equate the Z.5 to those upper digits.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is, if they didn&#039;t change the numbering scheme somewhere along the line...</p><p><br /></p><p>These notes were printed in 1974-1978.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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