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Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 06/13/2012 6:09 pm MistRaven I really don't know all that much about the process used by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, but I have been in newspaper press rooms and the paper is on rolls bigger than a car and it flies through a press that is a city-block long. At the end it gets cut and stacked. When something goes wrong, a pressman will run to stop the presses but by then hundred, if not more, pages have gone by. At the BPE, things get printed and printed and so on. I suppose for this error to occur, somebody pulled the sheet mid-process in order to inspect it and simply put it back into the stack wrong side up. Since the rest of the process would be too fast to actually observe, nobody would notice. I think they do random checks but it wouldn't be possible to visually inspect every sheet. Just guessing. Report this Post to the Staff
MistRaven New Member United States 8 Posts	Posted 06/13/2012 10:17 pm I thought the same thing Buddy. Well good news is we sold it for $450.00 there was a collector near our house who had a collector's book showing pictures of all types of error notes. It showed the value of this ours ranging from $100 to $600 depending on condition. This bill was in pretty good shape with no fold marks but the error stamps were very light and pointed to the picture and what the value is and it was just $450, he showed us a picture of one like it where the stamp marks were much darker and that particular one was worth the $650 to a collector. Either way I think we lucked out getting that much for a dollar lol. Thanks to all who commented. I really appreciate all your advice and knowledge. :-) Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 06/14/2012 05:17 am Congrats on your sale, $450 is a nice bit of extra money. So has all of this turned you into a collector John1 Report this Post to the Staff
wquinn Pillar of the Community United States 2295 Posts	Posted 06/14/2012 08:45 am Awesome sale! Glad to hear you were able to find a buyer and get a great price on it. And that is definitely an incredible profit on a single dollar purchase. And if you are ever in the DC or Fort Worth areas, the BEP gives free tours. You have to get there early to get a ticket for a later tour, but it is definitely worth it. I went on the tour in DC a few years ago. They print over 900 million dollar notes each year and 95% of those are to replace existing, worn notes, so there is no way they can inspect them all, but they are supposed to have a photographical way to inspect them. I don't understand how something so obvious gets missed then? Here are some details on how notes are printed: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurre...process.html Edited by wquinn 06/14/2012 08:50 am Report this Post to the Staff
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