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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 473173, member: 11668&quot;]The whole small printing of 1966A $100&#039;s took place in January 1971.&nbsp; The serials printed were A00768001A to A01280000A, but most of that range does not seem to have been issued--I watched Ebay for a couple of years and the highest serial I ever saw was in the 0088xxxx range.&nbsp; This is why the 1966A is so much rarer than the 1966: The printage of 1966A notes was two-thirds of the 1966 printage, but the number of 1966A notes actually issued seems to have been more like one-seventh of the 1966.</p><p><br /></p><p>All red-seal $100&#039;s remaining in the Treasury&#039;s and Fed&#039;s possession were shredded in either 1994 or 1996, depending on whom you ask.&nbsp; There was a push by collectors asking the government to auction them off instead, like the GSA silver dollars in the &#039;70s, but it turned out not to be possible: When Congress changed the law so that the red-seal notes no longer *had* to be kept in circulation, the new wording they adopted actually *prohibited* any more of them from being released, and Congress wasn&#039;t going to revise the law again just to make a few collectors happy.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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