Rarest Note In Your Collection?

Steve,

looks like you gave life to a dead thread.

I had forgotten this & now wish I had posted the photos via CCF's Image Optimizer instead of Photobucket.

Should anyone start a New "Rarest Note In Your Collection" since photobucket removed past images until you pay a subscription fee, I will do the same on the World Currency Forum, and link them to each other.

Like you, I have some rare U.S. notes here, and even rarer Foreign Notes. I'm guessing "Rarest" can be Value, Population Census, etc.. My post's would be something like - "This is the fourth (5th,6th and so on) rarest note in my collection because. . . . . . "

As a numbers guy, when the BEP started printing 50 subjects per sheet on the SOI Press & Overprinting on LEPE, the individual serial number plate positions for sheet location can now be found in the last 4 digits of the serial number, and now taking the fun out of it. (I did make charts when I noticed this, and they're somewhere way down the list).

Old habits die hard, and when I seen the 100k Sheet Run and serial number J02576832D on today's post, I do what I normally do to confirm the serial #'s Plate Position, I was surprised to find the serial number on this note is the COPE Plate Position ((when you round UP to the next whole number (same as the series 2013/17 $1 FRN's)). This was a first for me on a COPE serial number.

With a 3.2 million note Run, I take the serial number and divide by the Run size, minus any whole number then multiply by 32 (Notes per sheet), and round Up to next whole number and you get the COPE Plate Position for said note.

J02576832D = 2576832 divided by 3200000 = 0.80526 (no whole # to minus) x 32 = 25.76832 rounded up to 26 or Plate Position B4. This was the 1st time the serial number matched the plate position formula and now I'm thinking all 100k Sheet Runs most likely have the identical results on the first Run.

*The Inverted Overprint errors on series 1988A Web Notes Census just increased by 4 newly confirmed serials*

B-C, there's a Temporary Forum for Uploading Photobucket Images to Broken Posts, if you're so inclined.

I agree. If you want to upload them here we can fix it the posts.

Well, it ain't much to look at, but here it is. New Hampshire Colonial Currency June 28, 1776. I still consider it American, if not strictly United States.

This is probably my rarest note. On Bank of England notes of the 1970s and 1980s, the M prefix was used to designate a replacement note, like a star in the USA. The Newton reverse pound note was the last Bank of England note of that value: it was issued from 1978 to 1980 with the signature of J B Page and from 1980 to 1985 with the signature of D H F Somerset. Only one replacement prefix - M01 - is known for the whole series, so fewer than 1 million of these notes were printed.

All are very nice!

According to Treasury Records, 2,000 were issued and 1,999 redeemed.

Very nice!