Skipping numbers in series of serial numbers
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:38 pm
Disclaimer: I couldn't find any good thread to put this question. My notes are not suspicious, otherwise Suspicious notes and users might be the right place to ask this.
I've never been a heavy user so I don't usually register a big bunch of notes with serial numbers in a row. But whenever I take a small bunch of fresh new notes from an atm, their serial numbers are in sequence, except that sometimes a number is skipped. I've always thought that might be related to the way notes were handled: at some point, someone filling the cashiers would drop a note than pick it and not put back in the exact same sequence.
Today, however, I have withdrawn 68 fresh new Europa-series notes. Out of the 62 who were in the same sequence, three were missing, skipping from, say, U***61...549 to U***61...567, without U***61...558, in one instance, and similarly in the other two instances. Does this mean that those particular missing notes were found imperfect and not put in circulation? Are the skipped serial numbers missing for any other reason? Does anybody know?
I've never been a heavy user so I don't usually register a big bunch of notes with serial numbers in a row. But whenever I take a small bunch of fresh new notes from an atm, their serial numbers are in sequence, except that sometimes a number is skipped. I've always thought that might be related to the way notes were handled: at some point, someone filling the cashiers would drop a note than pick it and not put back in the exact same sequence.
Today, however, I have withdrawn 68 fresh new Europa-series notes. Out of the 62 who were in the same sequence, three were missing, skipping from, say, U***61...549 to U***61...567, without U***61...558, in one instance, and similarly in the other two instances. Does this mean that those particular missing notes were found imperfect and not put in circulation? Are the skipped serial numbers missing for any other reason? Does anybody know?