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Re:Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011) by bombcar on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @01:15PM (#40300538)
In 2014, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) accidentally assigned overlapping sets of serial numbers for replacements notes to its currency-printing facilities in both Washington, D.C. and Fort Worth, Texas. The overlap occurred from serial numbers B00000001* to B00250000* and B03200001* to B09600000*. On the lower right-side of the front of the note, the letters “FW” with the face plate number indicate it was printed in Fort Worth.

https://www.pmgnotes.com/news/article/9321/Duplicate-serial-...

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Re:Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011) by hinkley on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:06PM (#40303603)
A significant quantity of those bills has probably been pulled from circulation. One of the things the Reserve does is swap damaged bills and look for counterfeits. Every bill they destroy is another crisp bill they can return to banks without fucking with inflation.
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