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I barely have my foot in the door as as a coin collector / enthusiast. I manage a local restaurant so all currency deposited To bank goes through my hands.... Aside from the benefits of picking silver for face value, I very recently came to understand the potential value for error notes, star notes, & older currency. 2 days into checking all my bills, I've been fortunate and scored 2 very low serial number star notes. Anyhow, I was counting the till last night at close and came across a 1$ bill that seemed "off" in color & appearance. I swapped a buck for it and set it aside to look into later. At further glance, the obverse has more ink on the left side of it and the whole bill in general has an almost fuzzy look compared to other notes. Also, when I flipped it over there is a very distinct reverse image of washingtons head. Lastly, the word "one" that is encircled on the reverse of note is equally as visible as washingtons head appears on the reverse.... Only it is spelled backwards(eno).  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 Hang onto that one -- at least for now. It looks like it might be some kind of overprint error -- but I am not very knowledgeable about that sort of thing. Someone who knows will come along and tell you for sure but it would be good if you could post pics of both sides and get a close-up of at least part of it. What series is it? There might be a whole sheet of those out there....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take another pic of the front of the note using a dark background. (Black cardboard, black poster board or a black cloth would work)
The current pic on the sink has too much backlighting to make an accurate determination of your note.
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New Member
 United States
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Yea I've got the picture good to go I cant figure out how to post it tho.... Do I go back to my original post and edit it or am I suppose to tag it on to your post? I had no prob w the 1st one but gettin the pic you askesd for is giving me fits
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by MeadowviewCollector
03/22/2014 4:59 pm
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Also, you have to use 'reply to topic' and not use 'quick reply'. Click on 'reply to topic' above the 'quick reply' box. (Took me months to notice that.  ) |
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United States
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New Member
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Well, it does appear to have more ink on the left side, as you said. Not sure that's an error.
Can you post a pic of the other side, and maybe a close-up of part of it?
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New Member
United States
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 I hope this helps . By the way much appreciation for the input & advice on posting / imaging from yall. I thought my new found silver addiction was a vast and dynamic hobby to wrap my head around.... Throw notes into the mix and I already know I've got many years to go before this comes natural. Its already an addiction and I look forward to inheriting knowledge . Back to the bill.... Like I said ... I'm a clean slate to the hobby.... For all I know this could be a really well printed one dollar bill and I've just never looked so tediously @ one before.... But it jumped out from all the other hundreds of c notes I gotta count every day, 6 days a week.... So my familiarity with crisp, sticking notes in a 50, 20 , or 100 stack is strong. I was specificially looking for star notes because I had just found out the right star could have value.. So when I set it aside I did so because it just wasnt like n e other bill I've seen.... I found my 1st star note that night so I was pumped thinking the star had some rarity or value.....long story short my 1$ Star was just that.... Thats when I checked the pictured note..... 1st thought that came to mind is that the bill had come in contact with oil or grease ( I'm manager @ a restaurAnt so that explanation seemed fit).... But grease or oil will saturate itself noticeably ...... Thus when I tried pressing it against brown towel, paper towel, TP, and then a tissue, I was stumped about the dark ink on the left & the translucency of the bill... Anyhow, I'm anxious to find out what and why.... I'm a pessimist.... So "de bunking" this bill's rarity or value is equally as important to me as finding out its more then just a buck....... Any input will b greatly appreciated . Thanks |
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United States
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Sorry, but I just can't tell what's going on with that note. If it was mine, I'd stick in an envelope and take it to my local coin club and get some opinions. But if you don't have a local coin club....you could just hang onto it and see if anything like it turns up. If it is a printing error, then a whole sheet of notes will have the same error. My feeling is that while it might be odd, it is within production tolerance.
Is it a 2009 series? That year some $1 were COPE overprinted and some were LEPE overprinted. Check out USPaperMoney.info.
Anyway, it's only a buck, so it wouldn't hurt to hang onto it.
Now -- for some real fun, look up 'fancy serial numbers'. This will easily double the time it takes you to count the money at the end of the day. heh heh
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New Member
United States
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Ha its funny you mention it.... I've already educated myself a bit on fancy notes and have my eye out for em.... I assume the term fancy covers solids, consecutive #s, , birthdates, and all other categories I cant remember off top my head? I've yet to find any n e thing fancy, but I found a 50$ star note that I planned on inquiring about after I figured out this 1$ note ..... Which I suppose is time to move on from.... I'm at work now ... Didnt snap a pic of the 50$ yet & its @ my house ... Lookin forward to posting it because I havnt found one anywhere on web or ebay that has a serial number as low as it. |
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I should rephrase what I said about the 50 * note.... I have yet to find a serial number lower in that series.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I work in printing so I may be able to offer something here. When a sheet is printed and laid on top of another freshly printed sheet, the ink from the sheets can transfer to each other. This is called offsetting. Now that's conventional printing. I haven't studied the process that the BEP uses, but I know it differs in some ways from conventional printing. I don't know if offsetting is possible from the BEP presses. If it is, that's what I'd guess you have there.
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StJoeBlues - that sounds like a reasonable explanation but that makes me think we'd see this sort of thing more often.
I was kind of thinking that if the ink dispersion is computer controlled, that maybe there was a miscalculation or maybe the ink got gummed up. I've only ever seen newspaper presses, so I can only guess about it.
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Valued Member
United States
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Its an over inking error, nice find!
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Posted 03/21/2014 7:12 pm
