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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 404983, member: 11668"]The Gold Certificates' seals are basically yellow too.  It's approximately the same yellow as on the later North Africa notes, though who knows whether they used the exact same ink formula after a ten-year gap. The 1928-series FRNs have a gold clause, which tends to get them listed in the "Gold Certificates" category on Ebay more often than you'd think....  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Many of the later issues of large-size notes follow the same color conventions, at least for the USNs, SCs, and GCs.  But the color-coding isn't universal on the large-size notes; in particular, the large-size FRNs come in red-seal and blue-seal varieties, but no green seals. Some of the earlier large-size notes have color-coded backs instead.  Most large-size GCs have orange backs rather than green, and the first couple series of large-size SCs had distinctive dark brown backs which were later discontinued for some reason or other.  Some large-size Nationals had (lighter) brown backs as well, which may be part of the reason why the color brown was later chosen for the seals of the small-size Nationals.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]