The ink color seemed so close thought I should ask. Can you suggest books for paper money errors, I sure would like to get more involved in collecting?
The two most commonly asked questions by new collectors is, "What's this mark on my note ?" and "Is my serial number valuable ?"
Bank employees routinely stamp straps of notes with the bank name and a date and inevitably one of them misses the middle of the strap and it ends up on the note itself. It's more common than you might think. This is the perfect example of just that.
Here's an example of a bank strap before being stamped.
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