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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 961342, member: 11668&quot;]Right--that works for anything printed in 12-subject sheets, which is Series 1928 through most of 1935D, plus 1950 (with the exception of those Type 1 Nationals).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When the 18-subject sheets came along in the 1935D/1950A printings, everything changed; and later when the 32-subject sheets arrived with Series 1957, everything changed again. It&#039;s not nearly as simple any more, but if you really want to see all the math, you can check out <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t50727/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t50727/">this thread</a>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&#039;Course, even that&#039;ll be obsolete as soon as the BEP starts printing 50-subject sheets. We just found out last week that the first of the new 50-subject COPE-PAK machines is slated to arrive in September, so we might actually see currency printed in the larger format by year&#039;s end. At the moment, we don&#039;t even know how the positions are going to be designated on those sheets, let alone how they&#039;ll relate to the serial numbers....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#039;s a bit odd, since none of the 1935F notes have the &quot;In God We Trust&quot; motto. It&#039;s only Series 1935G that comes both ways, with the no-motto version of that series being the more common.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To address the original question, the Silver Certificates were issues of the U.S. Treasury, not of the Federal Reserve System, so they weren&#039;t domiciled to particular Federal Reserve Banks. Thus the serial prefix letter didn&#039;t need to mean anything in particular; it just ranged through the whole alphabet (excepting O). So the X is just the letter in between W and Y, I&#039;m afraid. On today&#039;s Federal Reserve Notes, the first letter has to be A through L, representing one of the twelve FRBs; but the suffix letter can still get up to X if a single series runs long enough (this has only happened in the 1988A $1&#039;s, 1995 $1&#039;s, and 1996 $100&#039;s).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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