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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 479139, member: 11668&quot;]As Camaro said, they&#039;re the printing plate numbers.&nbsp; The BEP&#039;s current generation of presses use four plates in rotation, so if you&#039;d gotten more of these consecutive bills, you&#039;d&#039;ve seen those numbers keep cycling 29, 34, 33, 30, 29, 34, 33, 30, ... and so on.&nbsp; It&#039;s pretty random just which four plates happen to end up on a press; every now and then you&#039;ll see one number that&#039;s way out of line with the other three, just because that&#039;s the plate that happened to be handy that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the old days, they had single-plate presses, so a stack of consecutive bills would&#039;ve all had the same plate number.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve read that the new super presses the BEP is currently installing and testing will use three plates, so before too long we&#039;ll be seeing cycles of three plate numbers instead of four....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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