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The lower the serial number, the more valuable the currency is considered to be; a bill with the serial number 00000001 could be worth $15,000, according to SavingAdvice.com.
Check the serial number. The Boston Globe took a look inside the world of rare-bill collectors who are all about "fancy" serial numbers. It turns out those eight-digit numbers can be attractive in ...
Singapore uses "Z/0" in the serial number to mark replacement banknotes. Indonesia uses "X" in the serial number to mark replacement banknotes. Iraq and Kuwait use prefix "Letter/99" in the serial number to mark replacement banknotes. Zambia uses "X3" in the serial number to mark replacement polymer banknotes. Thailand uses "Sพ, 0Sพ,1Sพ ...
A similar scheme to currency bill tracking – and said to be inspired by it – is BookCrossing, which tracks the movement of secondhand books which are marked and then "released into the wild". In one episode of the Czechoslovak comic series Rychlé šípy , the boy club releases a marked 1 crown coin and then they track the coin through ...
The serial number for the central bill has been redacted out, which is commonly done to prevent people from entering the bill into the system without physically possessing it. The Where's George? site says it "prohibits trading or exchanging bills with friends, family or anyone known to the bill distributor for the purpose of re-entry".
In that case, the sequence of serial numbers was restarted, and an extra overprint of 'Series 1' was added to the bill. When one million bills in 'Series 1' were printed, 'Series 2' was used, and so on. 'Series 187' is the highest series number of this sort that was used, on the United States Notes of 1863, in the $5 denomination.
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Back plate number (U.S.A.) Small number found on the lower right side of the back of a bill. Officially known as a Check Number, it provides a cross-reference to the Plate Serial Number on the front. Banknote Paper currency issued by a bank as opposed to a government. BEP (U.S.A.) The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (United States). Border