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That's a lot of stuff! Let's break them down. Today, every $1 bill has a Federal Reserve District Seal. It's a one- or two-digit number that appears in the corner of the bill four different times (this dollar shows a No. 2). The numbers indicate which Federal Reserve Bank actually printed the bill.
- Sarah Gleim
- The Federal Reserve Seal and The Federal Reserve District number.
- Serial Numbers
- Series Date
- Plate Serial Number
- Note Number Position
- The Great Seal of The United States
There are twelve different Federal Reserve Banks responsible for printing paper money in the United States. On the one dollar bill, the bank can be quickly identified by a letter code in the Federal Reserve Seal to the left of the portrait of George Washington. The letter code is also found in the prefix of the serial number. A corresponding Federa...
The serial number of a bill appears twice, once in the lower left hand quadrant and again in the upper right hand quadrant on the front of the bill. The letter which precedes the numbers must be the same number that you saw identifying the Federal Reserve Bank. The last letter of the serial number or suffix letter identifies the number of times tha...
In the lower right quadrant between the portrait of George Washington and signature of the Secretary of the Treasury is the Series Date. This number is presented as a the year portion of a date - as in 2004 - and sometimes has a letter suffix - as in 2004A. It is important to note that there is not a series for every calendar year. A new series wil...
The Plate Serial Number appears twice: once on the front of the bill in the lower right quadrant above the Federal Reserve District Number, and again on the back in the lower right corner. It identifies the plate from which the note was printed.
The Note Number Position appears in the upper left quadrant. It is a letter number combination that indicates which position on the plate the note was printed. The number indicates the quadrant and the letter indicates the position within the quadrant. The following chart shows this relationship:
The front (or obverse) of the seal shows an American bald eagle behind the national shield. The eagle holds an olive branch. The 13-letter motto, "E Pluribus Unum," on the ribbon held in the eagle's beak means "Out of Many, One." On the reverse of the seal is a pyramid with 1776 in Roman numerals at the base. The pyramid stands for permanence and s...
- Caitlin Schneider
- THE NOTE-POSITION IDENTIFIER. Made up of the check letter and quadrant number, the note-position identifier indicates the physical spot that a particular bill occupied on a printing sheet.
- FEDERAL RESERVE SEAL. Established in 1913, the Federal Reserve is made up of twelve banks that distribute currency. The seal bears the name of the issuing bank and a letter designating the district—"L" is the letter for San Francisco.
- SERIAL NUMBER. The serial number appears twice on the front of the bill, once in the lower left hand corner and once in upper right hand corner. All bills above $2 have a serial number that begins with two letters: The first corresponds to the series year, and the second to the letter code of the bank that distributed the bill ($1 bills only have this letter).
- FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT NUMBER. This number appears four times on the front of the bill. These many signifiers can be helpful in cases of mutilated currency.
The $1 Federal Reserve note was issued in 1963, and its design—featuring President George Washington and the Great Seal of the United States—remains unchanged.
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The United States one-dollar bill (US$1), sometimes referred to as a single, has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. fractional currency notes in 1876.
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