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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1305175, member: 11668&quot;]Yeah, I don&#039;t think &quot;test&quot; is really an appropriate term here.&nbsp; The note was printed on the new SOI presses, but those aren&#039;t in any way experimental.&nbsp; They&#039;re an established intaglio press design; it&#039;s just that the BEP hadn&#039;t bought any presses of this design before a few years ago.&nbsp; Nobody&#039;s worried about them &quot;failing&quot; or anything like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>In contrast, the web press back in the &#039;90s was experimental.&nbsp; It was a new design, built to order for the BEP, and they spent several years tweaking it and trying to make it work before they gave up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something like half of the 2006 $20&#039;s printed at Washington, and all of the 2009 $20&#039;s printed there, were produced on the SOI presses.&nbsp; So they&#039;re certainly not scarce.&nbsp; Now, during the transition in Series 2006, there were a few blocks/runs that were *almost* entirely printed on the SOI presses, with a few old-press sheets mixed in; those old-press notes from the SOI runs *might* just command a premium someday, if a significant population of collectors become interested in this sort of thing.&nbsp; (And that&#039;s a big &quot;if&quot;....)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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