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$5 Error Star Note Question

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 Posted 11/11/2017  09:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bkellog1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
See below pic for the holder I purchased this in. doesn't make sense to me a holder could cause a back to front ink transfer.


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 Posted 11/11/2017  10:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Michael Lueders to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you John1
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 Posted 11/11/2017  9:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bkellog1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
See below for another graded error that is very similar to my star note. Anyone else chime in?


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 Posted 11/12/2017  4:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry, afraid I don't quite understand what you're asking.
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bkellog1 - you haven't shown the backs of either of the graded notes. Do they, like your $5 note, have the offset error on both sides? I would have thought the odds of that would be astronomical. Perhaps not.

I sincerely hope it is an offset printing error because I think it's cool that you bought it for the star and got yourself a bonus along the way.

I'm beginning to think the only way to know for sure is to examine the ink with a microscope.

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What I'm asking is the graded offset examples I have shown look very similar to the $5 star note in that there appears to be ink from the back on the front of this $5 star. Comparing the graded examples to the $5 star, how then can you say the $5 isn't an offset error? What is different from the $5 star to the graded examples? This is what I don't get.

To answer your question about the back, no, the graded examples dont have any offset on the back.
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Comparing the graded examples to the $5 star, how then can you say the $5 isn't an offset error?


I can't and I didn't. My first thought when I first saw it was that it was set in a stack of still damp sheets but then I did some checking and changed my mind. It is the serial number that has me confused. I don't think that the back of the note has an offset image. It could; I just can't figure out how that could happen.

I wish I could confirm that it was an error, but I've never seen one in person. It's a hard thing to be sure about when you've only seen pictures.
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See below pic for the holder I purchased this in. doesn't make sense to me a holder could cause a back to front ink transfer.

A PVC holder will leach into the note causing the paper to become transparent. The holder you show in the picture looks like the old vinyl type holders that contain PVC.
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bkellog, The older plasticized holders for notes and coins react with the currency. In the case of notes what lettow said, in the coins it can cause toning.
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