High Numbers And Alpha's

Glad you liked my write up on SOIs .

I hope he finds your info useful too. Its cool to look at the serial ranges and think "I helped identify that".

Yes the back plate numbers are larger on FW notes, but not just for series 2006. It is one of the identifying marks of a FW note along with the FW in front of the plate number on the obverse of the note.

I have turned on my PM so you can contact me. I think you do more bill searching than me; especially of uncirculated notes. I think we have plenty of info to exchange though .

Greg, I am some what puzzled by your comment (granted I do not read that site much). For 06 32 mil were printed and for folks like me who just put away some notes as an example what effect would 06 have on a note from 95. It's sort of like saying they print dollar bills every year ergo there is no historical value for older notes. Also only Atlanta went up to T for 06. I have T's that range in number and a handful where the SN is higher than 32 Mil from various fed districts.

If you could expand on your point it would be helpful. Thanks

Peace

Ceylon I saw you post in a different thread (the error thread) that notes ending in 0000 are not circulated. So does that mean that your note in the picture ending 0001 would have a star note before and after it?

I found this on http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/...82-3095.html




It seems to me that having the "set" of the 0001 bill with the two stars before and after would be a very nice find. Is that even possible? Is it possible to know that the star note you have actually belongs after the 0001 note? In other words could someone just have 2 star notes and a 0001 note and say they are a set?

Just wondering...

I was going to make a new topic but instead found this older one to post the note I found a few days ago. So far this is the highest serial I have found in circulation. If the circulated run ends at 95999999 (because 96000000 would be replaced with a star yes?) then this one was only 1482 from the end of Q block (for circulated numbers).

Feel free to correct me if this info is inaccurate.

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth D. KROESSER, Roger D. Harmon, Defendants-Appellants.

Roger Harmon and Kenneth Kroesser, former employees of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, appeal their convictions, following trial by jury, for the crime of retaining and concealing Federal Reserve notes stolen from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Prior to their commission of the crime charged in this case, Roger Harmon and Kenneth Kroesser were both employed by the Bureau in Washington, D.C., as Physical Security Specialists. One of their job assignments was to witness the destruction of sheets of Federal Reserve Notes that had been removed from production runs in order to spot check for blemished bills.1 On several occasions, beginning in the fall of 1977, Harmon and Kroesser hid some of the sheets while the workers whose job it was to destroy them were out to lunch. Then, after work, they would retrieve the hidden sheets, conceal them under their clothing, and leave the premises.

Though the arrests in the instant case were the result of information garnered from sources totally independent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nonetheless two days prior to the arrest of Kroesser and Harmon the Bureau became independently aware that some currency which should have been destroyed had entered circulation. The currency in question surfaced after it was used to purchase postal money orders in the Orlando, Florida, area. The currency aroused suspicion, because, although the printing and paper were genuine in every respect, the bills had uneven edges, as though they had been cut with scissors. Federal Reserve Notes are not generally perfectly centered and that alone would not have aroused suspicion.

The only other fact that would have made these notes suspect is their serial numbers. Many of the bills had serial numbers ending with 9998, 9999 and 0000. Currency sheets which have notes with serial numbers ending with 9999 and 0000 are usually extracted from the process and checked for quality and correctness, and are replaced by substitute sheets with serial numbers ending with an asterisk and placed into circulation.

Once the sheets were removed from the production run it was apparently cheaper to destroy and replace them than to reinsert them into the production run.

This note ends in four 0's, but is that because it is a star?

Why do you say it's counterfeit?

The highest I came across was something like 13 or 1400 closer to the end and tossed it back out as it was in dire condition.

Why did they not invest in a decent cutter from the hobby store? Also, was the cutter at the BEP to big to carry out?

Interesting question about the stars and the ending 4 zero's. Regardless it's a binary and should hold it's own.

Peace