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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 817996, member: 11668&quot;]RickieB&#039;s note has printing alignment marks. On most of the 12-subject series, there&#039;s a mark between the C and D positions, and another between I and J; depending on the era, it&#039;s either a horizontal mark as on RickieB&#039;s note, or a vertical mark. The mark at the center of the sheet is either vertical as on RickieB&#039;s note, or T-shaped--see <a href="http://www.donckelly.com/sm_type/f1870hcu.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.donckelly.com/sm_type/f1870hcu.html" rel="nofollow">this note</a> for a nice example of the latter.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 18-subject sheets usually have a horizontal mark between C and D, a vertical one between I and J, and a horizontal one between O and P. The marks on the 32-subject sheets have changed over time, too--in recent years, what alignment marks there are are so far out in the sheet margins that they don&#039;t appear on any of the notes unless the cutting&#039;s off a bit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In no case do the alignment marks fall within the design of any note--they&#039;re always in the margins between the notes. So the note at the start of this thread has something else entirely. Whether it&#039;s a BEP error or post-printing damage, I can&#039;t tell. Likewise, I have no idea whether the mark on the Hawaii note originated at the BEP. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>Edited to add:</i> Answering the other question, two leading zeroes do not make a low serial number.&nbsp; Five leading zeroes is low; four is sort of low; less than that and nobody much cares, I&#039;m afraid.&nbsp; Your $2&#039;s serial number *might* attract a little interest because it has five zeroes in it, but that&#039;s a different issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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