Altogether, there are a possible 2,499,999,975 serial numbers for each bank! The final letter is used to raise the number of possible bills beyond 99,999,999.Using these digits alone, there would be a possible 99,999,999 bills issued per bank.

This number increases sequentially as each bill is printed.

The eight numerical digits that follow represent a unique ID number.

As there are 12 Federal Reserve Banks, this letter can range from A to L, with A representing Boston and L representing San Francisco.

The second letter (or first, if you're looking at an old-style bill) represents the district of the Federal Reserve Bank that your bill was issued from.

You can also find the series of the bill printed directly to the bottom-right of the portrait. This begins with A, and moves through the alphabet each time a new series is needed (for example, each time there is a new secretary of the treasury, the bill design changes because the secretary's signature is on all currency). The series indicates the year in which the design of the bill was approved for production.

The first letter, only found on the new-style bills, represents the series of the bill.

Nearly all of the serial numbers ended with an A, B, or a star. Most were from either the 1963A or 1969 series.

Most of the serial numbers of $20 bills started with an 'L' (nearly 87%), which means it originated with the San Francisco Federal Reserve branch Please note that, when entering a bill that, there can be no spaces between the letters or numbers, and any letters MUST be in all capital letters. If you got a bill with one of the serial numbers, the program will tell you. Our engine will take the information you supply, and comb our database of the nearly 10,000 serial number of the hijacker's ill-gotten gains. Using the guide below, enter the serial number from the $20 bill (on either half of the bill), and the Series year ( located on the lower right corner of Andrew Jackson's portrait) - like the areas highlighted in yellow in the picture below. Found an old $20 bill, and want to easily check to see if it was part of the loot from the most storied skyjacking in American history? Then look no further!įor years, you had to find a copy of the FBI's list of the stolen serial numbers - no easy task! Then, you had to peruse the dozens of small-font pages to see if your suspect bill was listed.

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