What Do You Call The Letters In Front Of A Serial Number In English?

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DL20K Pillar of the Community Poland 3201 Posts	Posted 04/08/2016 3:32 pm If necessary, please feel free to move this thread to Dumb Questions sub-forum... So, what do you call these in English? In Polish, this is a "series". It's already called that on notes dating from 1830 and while not every note has this word spelled out, it is often found until 1947 (and then on a 1948 specimen note). But in English, if you say "series" it seems to be understood as "a set of related notes". Nowadays, you can sometimes find those being called "prefixes" in Polish. This is a recent development and must have come from English. Is that the correct term, then? And if the letters pictured above are a prefix, then what are "block numbers" or "block letters"? Edited by DL20K 04/08/2016 3:33 pm Report this Post to the Staff

chequer Pillar of the Community Canada 4227 Posts	Posted 04/08/2016 3:33 pm Yes, prefix is what I've always heard them called. Report this Post to the Staff
paxbrit Pillar of the Community United States 992 Posts	Posted 04/08/2016 8:47 pm Prefix, or block. A Series is essentially the same thing, just a different way of adding letters to the numbering to allow more notes using only a set amount of numbers. Report this Post to the Staff
ShareBear Valued Member Canada 499 Posts	Posted 04/09/2016 08:40 am They are called Prefix because they come before the number. Suffix if they come at the end of the number. You have a China 5 Jiao these notes have different Prefix types. Letter-Letter, Letter-Number-Letter. Edited by ShareBear 04/09/2016 08:40 am Report this Post to the Staff
DL20K Pillar of the Community Poland 3201 Posts	Posted 04/10/2016 04:18 am Thanks for clarifying, everyone! Report this Post to the Staff
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