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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 1488216, member: 2098&quot;]It has pretty much nothing to do with an anti-counterfeiting attempt but rather the manufacture of the notes themselves. In December 2010, I found two Mint CU and consecutive $1 notes that had matching plate numbers. I emailed an expert on the matter and found out why this type of thing happens. My question:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:02 PM</p><p><br /></p><p>Hello,</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I bought a circulated strap of singles from the bank and in it I found 2 mint CU and consecutive 2009 notes in the L-C block. What is strange about them is that their front and back plate numbers are identical. The front plate numbers are 14 and the back numbers are 27. I thought something like this wasn&#039;t possible? Everytime I&#039;ve come across consecutive notes, their plate numbers have changed slightly one from the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>His response: &quot;Date: Sunday, December 19, 2010, 1:33 PM</p><p><br /></p><p>Must&#039;ve been a few defective sheets pulled out before the serialling operation.&nbsp; Bad sheets that are caught before the serial numbers have been printed are just discarded, and not replaced by anything, creating a skip in the cycle of plate numbers.&nbsp; If three sheets in a row get thrown out, then we end up with two consecutive sheets with identical plate numbers.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t happen too often, but it happens.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This expert was Numbers but I contacted him directly through his website as I didn&#039;t know he was a member of this forum at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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