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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1348040, member: 11668"]The $5 used "Series 2006" twice because the BEP painted themselves into a corner, basically....</p><p><br /></p><p>When the Kodachrome redesign began, during the Marin-Snow signature combination, the colorized bills were Series 2004 while the denominations that hadn't been colorized yet were Series 2003. The 2004 date was entirely fictitious--the 2004 $20 was both printed and issued in 2003!--but the BEP chose different series dates in order to distinguish the two designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moving on to the Cabral-Snow signatures, the two designs became Series 2003A and Series 2004A. The $10 was redesigned at the same time the signatures changed, so it went directly from 2003 to 2004A. Notice that these first Kodachrome $10's weren't Series 2005, for the year they came out; they were Series 2004A, the same series designation used for the other Kodachrome denominations that shared the same signatures.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then the Cabral-Paulson signatures came along, and due to the new Secretary's signature, the BEP designated all denominations with those signatures as Series 2006. That was a bad idea; they should've used (say) Series 2006 for the old-style designs and Series 2007 for the denominations that were Kodachrome, fudging one of the dates the same way they did with 2003/2004. Why? Because the redesign of the $5 happened several months after that signature change, and then the BEP was in trouble. The old-style $5 with the Cabral-Paulson signatures was called Series 2006; the redesigned $5 should, according to precedent, have gotten the same series designation as the other Kodachrome designs...which was *also* Series 2006. Oops. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (Note that it's definitely *not* Series 2008, for the same reason the $10 wasn't Series 2005.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So we ended up with two successive $5 series that are both called Series 2006. This is likely to confuse currency collectors and cataloguers for approximately forever, I'm afraid....</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, the reason why the current $100's are Series 2006A is less clear. The BEP issued an explanation for that one, seen <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2006ah.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2006ah.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone. (It appears that they're being consistent in applying this new rule, at least: People touring the Fort Worth BEP have reported that it's now finally printing Kodachrome $100's again, and their serial numbers begin with L. Sounds like they're probably Series 2009A, for the same reason the old-style $100's are Series 2006A.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1348040, member: 11668"]The $5 used "Series 2006" twice because the BEP painted themselves into a corner, basically.... When the Kodachrome redesign began, during the Marin-Snow signature combination, the colorized bills were Series 2004 while the denominations that hadn't been colorized yet were Series 2003. The 2004 date was entirely fictitious--the 2004 $20 was both printed and issued in 2003!--but the BEP chose different series dates in order to distinguish the two designs. Moving on to the Cabral-Snow signatures, the two designs became Series 2003A and Series 2004A. The $10 was redesigned at the same time the signatures changed, so it went directly from 2003 to 2004A. Notice that these first Kodachrome $10's weren't Series 2005, for the year they came out; they were Series 2004A, the same series designation used for the other Kodachrome denominations that shared the same signatures. So then the Cabral-Paulson signatures came along, and due to the new Secretary's signature, the BEP designated all denominations with those signatures as Series 2006. That was a bad idea; they should've used (say) Series 2006 for the old-style designs and Series 2007 for the denominations that were Kodachrome, fudging one of the dates the same way they did with 2003/2004. Why? Because the redesign of the $5 happened several months after that signature change, and then the BEP was in trouble. The old-style $5 with the Cabral-Paulson signatures was called Series 2006; the redesigned $5 should, according to precedent, have gotten the same series designation as the other Kodachrome designs...which was *also* Series 2006. Oops. :rolleyes: (Note that it's definitely *not* Series 2008, for the same reason the $10 wasn't Series 2005.) So we ended up with two successive $5 series that are both called Series 2006. This is likely to confuse currency collectors and cataloguers for approximately forever, I'm afraid.... On the other hand, the reason why the current $100's are Series 2006A is less clear. The BEP issued an explanation for that one, seen [URL="http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2006ah.html"]here[/URL], but it doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone. (It appears that they're being consistent in applying this new rule, at least: People touring the Fort Worth BEP have reported that it's now finally printing Kodachrome $100's again, and their serial numbers begin with L. Sounds like they're probably Series 2009A, for the same reason the old-style $100's are Series 2006A.)[/QUOTE]
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