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(25¢) Nondenominated American Eagle First-Class Presorted Rate
(Sennett Security Products)
Self-Adhesive Coil of 10,000
Scott# 3796 Plate # S1111111, S2222222, S3333333
Scott# 3801a 3792 - 3801, Strip of 10 / Click HERE to see a complete strip and the catalog list.
Note Scott Publishing editor James Kloetzel states "that the (Scott Catalogue) listings for Plate Number strips of the 25c Eagle coil will be (1) Plate Number strip of 11 with plate number on the center stamp (gold on green), and (2) Plate Number strip of 21 with plate number on the center stamp."
Issue Date & City June 26, 2003, Santa Clara, CA 95050
Nationwide Sale June 27, 2003
Designer Tom Engeman, Brunswick, MD
Art Director Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Typographer Tom Engeman, Brunswick, MD
Modeler Donald H. Woo
Engraver Southern Graphic
To Press / Initial Run Spring 2003  /  310,000,000
Coil Size 10,000 (10 designs)
Printer Sennett Security Products (SSP)
Press Rotomec, 3000
Process Gravure
Where Printed American Packaging Corporation, Columbus, WI
Where Processed Unique Binders, Fredericksburg, VA
Plate Size & Interval 400 stamps per revolution / plate # every 20 stamps
Paper & Gum Nonphosphored, USPS Type III, Self-Adhesive
Tagging Type Untagged
Die Cut Gauge 11.6 Vertically
Colors PMS 135 (Yellow), PMS 186 (Red), PMS 348 (Green), PMS 7461(Blue), PMS 646 (Dark Blue), PMS 431 (Gray), Black
Image Size (w x h) 0.72 x 0.832 in./18.28 x 21.13 mm
Overall Size (w x h) 0.87 x 0.982 in./22.09 x 24.74 mm
Back Numbers & Black Bar

 5 digit back numbers, every 10 stamps. Plate S1111111 has Pink or Black back numbers with top, middle and bottom positions for both colors. Plates S2222222 and S3333333 have only Pink back numbers with top, middle and bottom positions. Also printed on the back of the liner is a vertical bar, approximately 1.5mm wide, which repeats every 20 stamps.  Coils with plate S2222222 exist without the vertical black bar.
Earliest Known Use June 26, 2003
USPS Order Numbers Full Coil of 10,000 - $2,500.00 - 782140 / Strip of 25 - $6.25 - 782130
First Day Cover - (2 stamps) - $0.88  - 782162 / Deadline extended to 90 days on this issue.
Availability Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City & Providence, RI
Official Announcement The Postal Service will issue the nondenominated (25-cent value) American Eagle Presorted First-Class MailŪ stamps in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) coil of 10,000 (Item 782100) on June 26, 2003, in Santa Clara, California. The stamps, designed by Tom Engeman, Brunswick, Maryland, go on sale nationwide June 27, 2003.

These Presorted First-Class Mail coil stamps feature an artistic rendering of a detail of the Great Seal of the United States. In his 1782 design, Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, gave prominence to the American bald eagle. This majestic raptor, a native of North America, became a symbol of freedom as well as the emblem of our country. The designs for the stamps feature the head and outstretched right wing of the American bald eagle and a portion of the shield is on its breast, with the tip of the olive branch held in its right talon. The coil has 10 versions of the eagle - in gold, green, blue, red, and gray - that appear against a background of a contrasting color.
Note: The plate number is on the stamp with the gold eagle and green background.
Distribution: Item 782100, American Eagle Presorted First-Class Mail PSA Coil of 10,000
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) requiring nondenominated Presorted First-Class Mail PSA coils of 10,000 will receive an automatic distribution quantity of Item 782100, as per their surveyed request. Master carton size is 10 coils.
Initial Supply to Post Offices
Post Offices requiring quantities of Presorted First-Class Mail PSA coils of 10,000 must order them from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute this coil to Post Offices before June 23, 2003.
Philatelic Requirement
Philatelic centers requiring the American Eagle 10,000 stamp coil must order Item 782100 from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17.
Additional Supply
Post Offices requiring additional coils must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional coils must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17. For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the Chicago APD will receive 1,200 additional coils; the San Francisco, Memphis, and New York APDs will each receive 800 additional coils; and the Denver APD will receive 400 additional coils. For fulfilling supplemental orders from APDs, the Kansas City Stamp Service Center will receive 6,400 additional coils.