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Pillar of the Community
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Got an old dollar bill in change ending in X. I have never seen the X before and is there anything special about this? Thanks
B04444749X - Series 1995
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Pillar of the Community
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are you sure is not a star? (*)
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Have an '88a 1$ also ending in X.
Pics later...
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Bedrock of the Community
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I do not think a X would be any more rare than a B or a L
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Pillar of the Community
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 It's just a note from the end of the serial number runs. Other countries (paper Aussie notes) have X denoting a replacement note, but not US notes. |
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I don't know how many 1995's you get, but I think you should keep it if you ddon't see many. I only see about one per year.
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Actually they are rarer than a B or an L. When notes are printed they are printed in blocks and runs. Blocks are 96 million notes and are composed of 15 runs of 6.4 million notes. The first block letter for a series is A. Once all 96 million notes are printed the A will switch to a B. Rinse, lather, and repeat. Every letter of the alphabet is used except O because it looks like a zero and Z because it is used for experimental / special runs. FRBs like New York and San Francisco routinely go through almost all the letters of the alphabet while FRBs like St. Louis almost never get that far. Thats not to say that a note with a X is super rare however if you go to the website Wheresgeorge.com and ask in the forums you can sell notes with block letters that high for a few bucks in good condition.
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Thanks' all for the replies.
As Sioul stated most I see are notes ending in L or N. I plan on hanging on to the X. The note is in rough shape and in 20 to 30 more transactions George will be ready for retirement. lol
Tumbleweed, The oldest note I have seen is an 88 from a circulated stack. Starting with 88 I have unc notes in sequential order (all except for 50's or a 100's of course). Nothing special with the numbers though.
FWIW, One of the tellers suggested I that get $ 1 bills on Mondays or Tuesdays from him after the local churches makes their deposit from the Sunday collection. He said that in the past he has seen all types of stuff with their deposits.
Peace
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Siuol, when you said "Every letter of the alphabet is used except O because it looks like a zero and Z because it is used for experimental / special runs." I have a silver certificate with a Z, was that from an experimental/special run, or was that common in the times silver certs were printed?
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Z was used back when the silver certificates were printed, but the O was never used. I think it could have been used for a FRN but to my knowledge the serial numbers never got that high.
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It won't make you rich, but on the forums for www.wheresgeorge.com they often sell high block bills (T-Y) for a small premiums.
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I have a question about this. I got a 1996 $100 (new York) note serial number AB83363831X.
My question is on the newer large notes arent there 2 block letters? Since the new notes have AB and X where the B is the district letter does that make this block the A X block, and if so would the next be A Y?
Hope that made sense.
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Yes, that is correct Nickelman. The serial number sequencing has not changed on FRN since 1914...... 'except' that in 1928 the serial was changed to eight digits instead of anywhere between one to seven........ 'and' then in 1996 the district letter was inserted directly behind the prefix letter on all of the big head notes ($5-$100).
Your New York $100 was one of 2 billion, 307 million $100 notes, not including another 17.92 million star notes. (Those figures are for the New York district alone).
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FWIW, I collect high ending alphas. So far the $100's I have come across are X and not in great shape. Ergo, Catch and release.
Take a look at the topic high numbers and alpha as that's the one I started hoping to see if others were collecting notes in that bucket. On the $1 frn's I have it all the way to Y (T to Y). Series 2006 Atlanta $1 frn was the first $1 series that came up to "T" since the 90's b4 rolling over to 2009.
Peace
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I collect high ending alphas. So far the $100's I have come across are X That's sort of what I was asking above. Does X mean it's high even though it starts with the A? I mean after AB------Y (not factoring in Z here) doesn't it just roll over to BB------A in the same series? And if not what the heck does that first A mean? |
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The "prefix" is the series. It started with "A" in 1999 (for $5's and up). The "second alpha" in the prefix is the Fed district.
The "suffix" rolls over every 99.2 Million notes (for 5's and up) staring at "A". Note number 99,200,001 is "numbered" as 0000 0001 B.
So if you take New York it would have gone like this
AB 0000 0001 A --TO-- AB 9920 0000 A
Rolling over TO - AB 0000 0001 B.
Series 2009 for $5 and up all start with prefix "J" and 2006 was "I".
Yes, "technically" notes ending ("suffix") in "Y" would be the highest for small size notes.
Peace
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