$100 Polymer Misprint?

Removing ink from polymer notes is very easy, with chemicals. I would avoid all polymer misprint errors with missing ink because it is very easy to fake.

That being said. I think you have a misprint because the signature portion is fully printed. It would be hard to remove the ink behind it.

I am not sure if TPG error notes but if you have it graded as an error it would make it much easier to sell or validate as a real error note.

I don't know exactly how yu can do it cheaply,,,but I agree that worth it to Certify.. try to find out who is a certifyer person in the city yu live in....

trevorstach......to the forum..

The problem is BCS does not grade or certify error notes. From their website

Error Notes

Error note collecting is a large and growing sub-section of the hobby. Although many types of errors are widely recognized, so much to even have a trend listing, error notes will not be certified. The variation on error notes is too broad and open to interpretation. Since every error note is different, it is a grey area of paper money collecting and will therefore not receive a certification.

There are other bank note certification places. However the one that seems to be focused only on Bank notes does not certify errors although there have been sitings of comments on their certification about errors.

There is a long stretch that this is a misprint. Firstly the signature that still appears to be intact is done using intaglio and more than likely uses different type of ink.

The ink that is seen missing - "the misprint" is done using offset lithography.

So just because the signature ink is there does not necessarily make it a legitimate error.

The main reason why I think it is a doubtful misprint is because the area that is lightened is made using at least two different plates with two different colour profiles. So for this to have happened on the printing press with such perfect registration between the two plates makes it suspect.

Of course anything is possible. Since you have worked in the bank you probably may know that it is possible to contact the BoC to verify if this is indeed a production related issue. If it is 9 time out of 10 they will tell you.