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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1564438, member: 24274&quot;]Did a little hunting through the SCCS catalog and I found it. It&#039;s listed as FSO 1985A (Forerunner Semi-Official) issued in 1985 for the Int&#039;l Paper Money Convention. According to the write-up &quot;the American Bank Note Co. donated 975 specimen sheets to the Society of Paper Money Collectors.&quot; The SPMC sold them to members and the public by mail and at the show for $15. I think Ken stocks these, but that page on his website is temporarily down -- you could email him.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a gorgeous sheet and the only drawback is how big it is -- 20 x 27&quot; -- so it&#039;s hard to display. Darrell&#039;s right, it has some great vignettes. I had to get mine back out and look at it. I think one of my favorites is the &quot;cameo&quot; vignette of Shakespeare. This uses fine parallel lines made by a ruling machine to create a 3-D effect, nearly impossible to counterfeit. You see this on a lot of obsolete banknotes if you look for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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