Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcsc!trivia
From: trivia@watcsc.uucp (Dave Nuttall)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: $5 notes
Keywords: what does the number mean??
Message-ID: <1989Jan14.233622.10919@watcsc.uucp>
Date: 15 Jan 89 04:36:18 GMT
References: <2009@water.waterloo.edu> <170@seacbc.UUCP>
Reply-To: trivia@watcsc.UUCP (Dave Nuttall)
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Organization: University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
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In article <170@seacbc.UUCP> wain@seacbc.UUCP (Wain Dobson) writes:
>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. 

That's pretty much what they are.  I noticed them about 10 years ago on a $1
and found for them on all the other bills.  You won't find any numbers bigger
than 20 on the hundred.  I caught a conterfeit bill because the counter-fitter
left out the press numbers.  It's something that you can easily overlook when
trying to reproduce the thing, and its not usually not something that you
notice when the bill is given to you.

-- 
David Nuttall
trivia@watcsc.UUCP
"Your tardy cleric casually pulls open the door that the thief has
been working on, unsuccessfully, for the last five minutes."-AD&D(c) Campain