Scottish Prefix Information

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Replacement Banknotes

When the uncut sheets of banknotes are being checked, faulty sheets are removed. To maintain the numeracy of the stack these are replaced with perfect sheet of banknotes. These replacement sheets are numbered separately, usually with an Z prefix (Z, ZB, Y, ZZ). The top left corner banknote of the first normal sheet would be numbered eg., BC42 000001 the second note would be BC43 000001, etc., the next sheet would be numbered BC42 000002, the second note being BC43 000002, so when a stack of 100 sheets is guillotined, each bundle of 100 banknotes is numbered down the bundle 1 to 100.  If a sheet has been removed, it would have been replaced with a replacement sheet, thus maintaining the numeracy of the stack.

ZZ Replacement £50