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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1900411, member: 11668&quot;]Yeah, that&#039;s a C, as the grading service noted on the holder (&quot;pp C&quot; next to the serial number means &quot;plate position C&quot;).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the later large-size notes were printed in sheets of eight, so the positions go up to H.&nbsp; Those sheets were cut in half before serial numbering, so they could go through the same numbering presses that handled the four-subject sheets.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Large-size Nationals are where it gets really crazy.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t have plate numbers; instead they indicated a replacement plate by incrementing the plate letters.&nbsp; So when the A-B-C-D plate wore out, the replacement plate would be E-F-G-H, and the next one would be I-J-K-L, and so on.&nbsp; Some of the large banks ran out of alphabet, so they got plates like AA-BB-CC-DD.&nbsp; If they ran out of *that* alphabet, they got A3-B3-C3-D3, and so forth.&nbsp; (Actually it&#039;s even more complicated because there were sometimes multiple denominations on the same sheet and that made the plate letters do even weirder things...but I&#039;m already way off topic, so I&#039;ll stop now.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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