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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 489131, member: 11668&quot;]I don&#039;t think so....&nbsp; I think the stuff that&#039;s not the same on every note is still engraved by hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that discussion a couple of years ago about the positioning of the &quot;FW&quot; on the 2003A $1&#039;s?&nbsp; It was a good bit sloppier than usual--sometimes the &quot;FW&quot; was very close to the position letter, sometimes oddly far away.&nbsp; Whoever engraved the master Fort Worth plate for that series must&#039;ve been in a hurry or something....</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, if you compare a 2004A $20 printed at DC to a 2004A $20 printed at FW, you can tell that the words &quot;SERIES 2004A&quot; aren&#039;t quite the same size on the two master plates.&nbsp; This variety is especially interesting because it tells us that DC and FW apparently each create their own master dies and plates for each new series.&nbsp; I would&#039;ve guessed that that work would be done only once, but looking at these notes tells us that FW&#039;s master plate isn&#039;t just a copy of DC&#039;s master plate with some &quot;FW&quot; letters added....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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