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Profile of a 7-Digit Mismatched Serial Number Error

Bob Liddell is among the foremost if not the foremost U.S. small size error collector. He is always looking for new types of misprints.

The modern generations of 32-subject COPE and now 50-subject LEPE numbering press have been a boon, because they are cranking out error types never seen before. Lately some previously unheard-of 7-digit mismatches have burst onto the scene. Of course, Bob had to get examples.

The purpose of this article is to profile one of the newly recognized 7-digit mismatch varieties. The thing that makes this numbering error so unusual is that when it occurred, all 8

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