Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!tessera!seacbc!wain
From: wain@seacbc.UUCP (Wain Dobson)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: $5 notes
Keywords: what does the number mean??
Message-ID: <170@seacbc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 18:20:16 GMT
References: <2009@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: wain@seacbc.UUCP (Wain Dobson)
Distribution: can
Organization: SEAC Software Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <2009@water.waterloo.edu> gfroyle@water.waterloo.edu (G.F.Royle) writes:
>I've just been gazing at some $5 notes, and I notice that the beak of
>the belted kingfisher points towards (well just above actually) a small
>2-digit number nestling at the foot of a bush.

On a $1 it appears below the 1 in the upper right corner.
On a $2 it appears below the foor of first robin from the right
On a $10 it appears below the right leg of X in DIX.

If it were a book printed before 1800, or so, I would assume that it is a press
number. 
-- 
Wain Dobson
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