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To: Jimh068 who wrote (96679)	4/18/2009 11:58:53 PM
From: benwood	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

FYI, they don't print a "mint mark" on bills. Those dates are the "Series" and they change only every so often, either in suffix (e.g. 1980 becomes 1980A) or in year (1976 became 1980). Generally, the year changes with a new Secretary of the Treasury; a change in the US Treasurer generally causes the letter suffix to increment. So... bills printed up until late January of 2009 will be those series 2006. Presumably bills printed after Geithner was sworn in will be series 2009. That would just be bills printed in the past 9-10 weeks. I would expect some delay do to the designs being updated, and further delay caused by the usual pipeline.