Ebay Scams, And Can You Spot Fake Currency Errors At A Glance

How could this note get a defined partial 2nd print, and miss the 3rd print completely ?

I have never seen an error like this. I've seen, and own a missing first print (blank back), I've seen a missing second print with 3rd print intact, but never this type of example. I believe this is a post BEP error.

There are a couple of places (above the "R" and the left edge of the base) that look like the bleach went a little too far.

The border (on the back, outside the green field) also looks a little wide to me, but I don't have one in front of me for reference.

If you take a closer look, you will find the back of the note lacks IGWT, making it a S/Certificate, yet the front makes no mention of the Note being backed by Silver, as they used a FRN front..

And you can see where the green seal was also erased. Not a new note though; the reverse plate number is too high. 1995 at the latest. It bugs me that I can't figure out the actual series haha

Click image to see larger version...I can see the "WE TRUST" the best.

That "error" can't be genuine. The missing portions of the face printing are too neat and symmetrical to have happened without intervention.

The back plate 663 is telling, and I think the note is Series 1963A. Although Series 1995 notes had back plates as high as 694, the data that I've collected indicate that 663 was not used in Series 1995. If true, you have to go back to Series 1963A to find back plates in the 600s, and 663 shows up in that series.

The missing "IN GOD WE TRUST" threw me, and I thought it was a silver certificate. I don't have plate data for silver certificates to know if/where 663 would have been used. Yet if you look closely at the face of the note, it seems to me that there is a faint green treasury seal on the right and faint "ONE" in the same location with a faint "WASHINGTON DC" above, and a faint federal reserve seal on the left, consistent with an FRN but not with a SC.

While the seller didn't answer my questions, he did Guarantee that this was a genuine note..

Seller replied "Well, after further inspection I owe you an apology. You are right. it shows much better in the photo then in your hand honestly. It was an honest mistake. I'm still not sure it was bleached. have you seen this before. I was told they stamp it in parts and maybe something happened during the stamping process. thanks for the info. I just didn't want to believe it."

Low and behold, the listing isn't ended. I wrote back and told them they need to cancel the bids and end the listing.

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