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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 480573, member: 11668&quot;]When the small-size notes first came out in 1929, there were five neatly distinguished types:</p><p>Gold Certificates (yellow seal)</p><p>Federal Reserve Notes (green seal)</p><p>Silver Certificates (blue seal)</p><p>United States Notes (red seal)</p><p>National Currency (brown seal).</p><p><br /></p><p>All the confusion turned up later:</p><p><br /></p><p>Federal Reserve Bank Notes were resurrected in 1933 to provide an emergency supply of currency during the Depression; they were printed using the National Currency designs in order to avoid taking the time to create new plates.&nbsp; The title &quot;Federal Reserve Bank Note&quot; isn&#039;t even printed on the notes!&nbsp; But this one at least makes some degree of sense, since FRBNs are really a subtype of National Currency anyway; the old large-size ones were labelled both &quot;Federal Reserve Bank Note&quot; *and* &quot;National Currency&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold Certificates were discontinued in 1933 and Nationals in 1935.&nbsp; But then the seal colors that had been used for them were recycled on the special WWII printings in the &#039;40s; and due to the way the series dating works, all those printings are dated either 1934 or 1935, so it looks like a lot more was going on at the same time than actually was.&nbsp; By the time these special notes were actually printed, there would&#039;ve been precious few other yellow- or brown-seal notes in circulation for them to be confused with.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Quite a few brown-seal notes would turn up later, though; there were a lot of those FRBNs that were left over when they weren&#039;t all issued during the Depression, and they were finally put into circulation in the late &#039;40s just to stop them from taking up space in the Fed&#039;s vaults.&nbsp; This is why they&#039;re still so common today, as collectible currency goes; people had a tendency to save them when they saw a new crisp 1929 bill circulating in 1949.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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