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Thanks again for everyone's advice.

Anthony

Anthony,

The plate number Peter was asking about is not on the coil wrapper but is printed at the bottom of the stamp at periodic intervals, in this case every 31 stamps. There should be at least three stamps on the coil with a plate number at the bottom.

Peter,

The shape and gauge of the die cuts suggest this is the Ashton-Potter printing.

Philatomic, thank you. And yes, I think so too, but just wanted to make sure.


Peter

The plate number is P111. The post office receives the coils in boxes of 50. Do you think that there are other coils from this box with die cuts the same way. What is the Ashton-Potter printing. Has anyone seen these coils with these die cuts before?

Anthony,

The plate number is probably P1111. The last digit is yellow and may be hard to see.

This stamp was printed by two printers, Ashton-Potter and Banknote Corporation of America. On the white wrapper of the Ashton-Potter version, the letters 'APU' appear under the words 'coil of 100' to the left of the bar code and the plate number on the stamps will start with the letter P. The label of the Banknote Corp version will say 'Manufactured by BCA' and the plate number on the stamps will start with the letter B. There are also differences in the die cuts and the placement of the microprinting.

It's certainly possible that there are more rolls like yours in the same box (or other boxes) at the Post Office. Since the wrapper isn't as tall as the stamps, they should be detectable without opening the roll. If you take a magnifier with you to the PO and ask to see more, you may get lucky.