[i.d. your Epiphone here -- serial # key, guitardater link + factory codes... a worldwide guide >part 3]

15 is the Epiphone factory in QingDao China. What's not right is the 03, it can't be. In 2003, serial numbers began with a letter(s). In 2008, the letters were dropped and replaced with numbers in the 5th & 6th digits. So you're right that 15 means your guitar was made in QingDao China, but it couldn't have been made in 2003. The number you posted conflicts with itself. It's not a legitimate serial number. Are you sure 03 isn't 08??? Can you post a photo???

Couldn't get a good photo. But in the attempt I got a closer look at the number and the first digit could very well be an '8'. Thanks.

[What Comes With A NEW Epiphone Guitar.]

I bought a new Casino last May. All I got was the guitar......that's it. No sticker, no manual, no poster, no sticker, no warrenty document, no sticker, no gigbag, no sticker.....nada, nutten, zip.

[i.d. your Epiphone here -- serial # key, guitardater link + factory codes... a worldwide guide >part 3]

Nope, can't be. That serial # system only began in 2008.

 

A 2003 serial number would be EE03120001

 

Is there a way of decifering my serial number? I entered it in the guitar dater. It did not recognize the number but did return the 15 meant the factory is in China. Now I am getting curious as to when it was actually manufactured.

[i.d. your Epiphone here -- serial # key, guitardater link + factory codes... a worldwide guide >part 3]

Sooooo....if my Casino's s/n = 03121500496 then it was made Dec 2003 in Qingdad (China) the 496th made? If true and I bought it "new" May of 2010 from a local music store, has it just been sitting in a warehouse for 6-1/2 years? Interesting....

 

Denny