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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Legomaster1, post: 3562509, member: 101260&quot;]<a href="https://cccoinandcurrency.com/100/certified-small-size-silver-certificates-100/1935-1-s-experimental-note-fr-1610-ssc-179" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cccoinandcurrency.com/100/certified-small-size-silver-certificates-100/1935-1-s-experimental-note-fr-1610-ssc-179" rel="nofollow">https://cccoinandcurrency.com/100/certified-small-size-silver-certificates-100/1935-1-s-experimental-note-fr-1610-ssc-179</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...recent information has come up that the &quot;R&quot; really stands for Rayon and these are the experimental notes, while &quot;S&quot; means Silk. During WW 2 a large amount of silk was needed to make parachutes. So it would be likely that this was a wartime experiment to replace the silk threads used in US currency. The notes both R &amp; S were delivered June 20th 1944 and issued into circulation to test there comparable durability.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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