Serial Numbers Play Major Roles for Bank Note Collectors

(Bank Note Reporter)If we even bother to think about it, most of us take for granted that notes have serial numbers. Of course, those individuals collecting and studying the vast field of world notes know there are many instances where notes totally lack a serial number, but such pieces often have other numeric symbols accounting for them in some way.

A significant number of collectors take part in the fun and challenge of locating special numbers such as radars (those reading the same forward or backward), solid numbers (with all numerals being the same), low numbers, especially those with that ever-desirable numeral 1, mistakes such as mismatched numbers, stuck digit printers, and others. But that is only a small part of the true story of the importance of these seemingly innocuous additions to so many notes from everyplace.

It happens that serial numbers are used in a number of ways that may be surprising to many collectors. To begin with, quite a number of countries indicate replacement notes through some . . .

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