Re: release of the new $5.00 (with security features)
I believe that the release of the new $5.00 will be much like the release of the $20.00 (tantalizingly slow) so that we might even have a few e-Bayers selling them just for the "impatient" in the collector's market (and for foriegn sales). Then, in a year or so, so many prefixes will be dumped we'll have a hard time tracking them. So the cycle could be: trickle, slow release, dump.
everyone is looking forward to the changeover but it sure seems strange that we STILL have not seen any 2006 notes
--well look at the modified $10 in the BT_ series: all still 2005 with no 2006 yet (still in the slow stage). Now its hard to keep track of the $20 with so many new prefixes flying around but that will slow down again.
It really does seem like the cycle of: trickle out, slowly release, then the "dump" catches a lot of us snoozing! I'd almost bet that the 2006 notes are the modified ones starting with AOG.