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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 206582, member: 66&quot;]As recently as the the 1980&#039;s Freedom Of Information requests about the checkletters were denied &quot;For reasons of National Security&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the reason for the rarity of the MM and MV is because I don&#039;t think they were supposed to exist.&nbsp; I think they were a production error.&nbsp; &nbsp; They are the only two varieties that contain an M.&nbsp; Also they don&#039;t fit in with the rest of the check letter patterns.&nbsp; ALL of the double letter tokens are blue tokens, except the MM.&nbsp; In the W series of blue tokens there is one missing, the WV.&nbsp; I suspect that when they started printing those runs they errored and got the W upside down and selected the M for the press creating the MM which was quickly corrected to WW, and the MV for the WV which was not corrected and most of the run scrapped.&nbsp; Of course that leaves open the question of if they were supposed to be W runs, why were they printed on red stock instead of blue?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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