Straits Settlements KGV $5 Mismatch Number Major Error Note

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asian note collector8888 New Member Malaysia 36 Posts	Posted 03/10/2009 04:12 am Hi,I need all the banknote collectors and specialists to help me this time.This is a straits settlements king george the fifth $5 dollar note issued in 1935 with missmatch prefix numbers B/27 00001 on the left bottom and B/41 100000(additional 0) on the right top.Beside that,there are number 12345 printed on top of this note.This note was kept by a british government in his book in 1937,the green colour numbers and date written by him on the plastic cover(not on the note).However somebody stole the book out and discovered this note in the book and sold to my friend uncle and my friend uncle just showed me this note and I took a picture of it.At first I was shocked to see the mismatch number especially the right number on top with an extra 0 on the number and also the number 12345 printed on top of this note.Honestly,i have never ever seen anything like this before as a banknote collector,never seen anyone auctioned and sold on ebay before.I have a few question to ask here. 1.what happend to this note during processing? 2.Is this considered as major error note or unique number note? 3.Why this note has 12345 printed on top center of the note? 4.Is this mismatch prefix number error note rare or common? 5.Does it has any special value and keen by the collector? Beside this note,my friend uncle has many straits settlements and malaya british borneo note such as 1942 malaya KGVI $1000 note,1953 British north borneo QEII $100&$1000 notes and many old straits settlements and malaya and british borneo notes all in his collection.Fortunely,he wanted to sell his whole entire malaya and british borneo collection to a keen buyer or collector for those who can afford and pay very high prices for all his rare notes in his collections only.IF anyone who is interested to buy and can afford it please take a flight all the way to malaysia to see me and ill take you to see my friend uncle and see his rare note one by one,you can purchase any of his note or the whole entired of his rare note collections if you can afford,no shipping courier service post becouse of item will be lost of damaged.please contact me by email or at here if you are interested.Thanks. Edited by asian note collector8888 03/10/2009 04:14 am Report this Post to the Staff

wd1040 Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 03/10/2009 04:40 am Looks like a test note. I've seen a lot of test notes and they all have another serial in the border, watermark, etc where serials aren't supposed to go, so that's my first guess. So if it's a test note, it might have been used to test the numberings. Another thing, your uncle has some very odd notes from the far end of the rare and expensive system. May I ask what did he used to do? Report this Post to the Staff
asian note collector8888 New Member Malaysia 36 Posts	Posted 03/10/2009 05:14 am wd1040,are you sure its a test note?is it possible to have a mismatch prefix numbers with 12345 numbers on center printed on the test note,please help me to varify it if anyone who knows anything about it,thanks. he is very old age right now and he used to work at the british department last time.This is all I can tell you. Edited by asian note collector8888 03/10/2009 05:17 am Report this Post to the Staff
wd1040 Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 03/10/2009 8:46 pm Well, if it's not a test note then it is a trial or sample note. These things would have the "12345" or some other serial to keep track of it. That would be my best guess. Anyways, I do not think this is an error note because on normal notes, there are no printing stages where it prints a serial into the top border. Because yours has that number, it can not be considered a part of regular production. And with the fact that your serial numbers are very special, it might mean the note was made especially for the director of finance or some other type of government official. And being that your uncle worked for the government in the Straits Settlements at the time, the fact that he was a special recipient of this special note is entirely possible. Report this Post to the Staff
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