Choice/Gem - Series 1999 $5 Deluxe Notes were issued with serial numbers below 5000 this note is BA00004775A. Offered for sale by the BEP over the 2001 Holiday Season, these sold out years ago. Beautifully designed, the note is housed in an informative and striking inner folder that slides into an outer folder, providing another layer of protection. The folder highlights the new security features of this note, including a ‘watermark, micro-printing, security thread, and fine line printing’. This represents the early stages of the ‘‘Currency Arms Race”, as our government responded to the sophisticated challenges from a new generation of high tech counterfeiters.