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Title: 1986 $2.00
Post by: Tim on April 27, 2010, 08:14:39 pm

I have a 1986 $2:00 note that I am trying to understand where it falls in terms of the Charlton Cat. number.
It is a Thiessen-Crow BBL 8725739.  It definitely has 1 large B and 1 small B.  The most obvious is that it falls under BC-55b with 220,000,000 printed but if it does fall there why did they not break that up into separate lists of small B - large B  and 2 small B's similar to that of the BGA-BGZ notes?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tim

Title: Re: 1986 $2.00
Post by: BWJM on April 27, 2010, 08:32:51 pm

In the BB- series, all notes from BBA-BBN were large/large. All notes from BBR-BBZ (BBX excluded) were small/small. BBP was split down the middle with the changeover believed to be at 3500000.

Title: Re: 1986 $2.00
Post by: Tim on April 28, 2010, 08:40:18 am

Thanks Brent.

That is interesting.  It sure looks like one small and one large B.  I will try and post a picture later on today or tomorrow.

Tim

Title: Re: 1986 $2.00
Post by: BWJM on April 28, 2010, 08:46:47 am

Bear in mind that it's only the first letter of each prefix that changes. In all cases, the second letter is small.

For example, with a BBL note, it would be large B, small B, L (on the left), large B, small B, L (on the right). This is referred to as a large/large variety.

Title: Re: 1986 $2.00
Post by: Tim on April 28, 2010, 11:40:59 am

OK..It is clear now.  Thanks for the help.

Tim