Identifying Web Notes
A currency note that was printed on a web press (referred to as a web note) can be identified by two distinct characteristics.
The following images illustrate the differences. The top note in each image is a web note; the bottom note is a sheet fed note.
The red box indicates the face plate number on a web note, which is near the bottom right corner, where the blue boxes indicate the face plate number in the bottom right corner and a position indicator number in the upper left corner on a sheet-fed note. Also, on sheet fed notes, the plate numbers are preceded by a letter; in some cases FW may precede the letter on the lower right corner; this indicates that the note was printed at the BEP facility at Fort Worth, Texas.
On the web note, the back plate number is just to the side of TRUST in the motto IN GOD WE TRUST (red box). On the sheet fed note, the back plate number is to the lower right corner of the central white space (blue box).
Web notes were made for three series of dollar bills.
| Series | Treasurer of the United States | Secretary of the Treasury |
|---|---|---|
| 1988A | Catalina Vasquez Villalpando | Nicholas F. Brady |
| 1993 | Mary Ellen Withrow | Lloyd Bentsen |
| 1995 | Mary Ellen Withrow | Robert Rubin |
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Famous quotes containing the words identifying, web and/or notes:
“And the serial continues:
Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,
A frieze that lengthens continually, in the lucky way
Friezes do, and no plot is produced,
Nothing you could hang an identifying question on.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“‘Tis the gift to be simple ‘tis the gift to be free
‘Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.”
—Unknown. ‘Tis the Gift to Be Simple.
AH. American Hymns Old and New, Vols. I–II. Vol. I, with music; Vol. II, notes on the hymns and biographies of the authors and composers. Albert Christ-Janer, Charles W. Hughes, and Carleton Sprague Smith, eds. (1980)