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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 3904323, member: 11668&quot;]I think it&#039;s the other way around.&nbsp; Farther back in the past, low serial numbers didn&#039;t sell for large premiums above face value--so if a Treasury official wanted one as a novelty, all he had to do was ask.&nbsp; Once the low numbers started to be *valuable*, it looked a lot more inappropriate to be giving them out as perks to officeholders.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember somebody dug up from the archives an exchange of letters in which Joseph Barr (Treasury secretary in 1968) asked for some low-number notes with his signature, and the reply was basically that we don&#039;t do that any more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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