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1990 $100.00 US Note

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Just curious here. Got this franklin note today and it has
a purplish red colored seal. B Bank of New York. Never saw one with that seal before. Anything unusual ?

Thanks.

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums...1/100obv.jpg

All I really wanted to know was if the purple/red seal was normal on
this year note.
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Can you post a scan or a pix?
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That's the only way for an opinion.
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In the history of US paper money, there has only been one case of the wrong color ink being used on an issued note. This was the case of a very, very small amount of series 1990 Federal Reserve notes in which the district seals were printed with green instead of black ink.

The overprints (serial numbers and seals) on earlier notes sometimes will change color due to environmental circumstances. The red ink pigments used in the production of 19th century United States notes (for instance) sometimes will turn a very dark blue color due to oxidation.
More recently, it became popular for certain folks (for whatever reasons), to apply chemicals to alter the color of the red seals on US $2 notes to a bright yellow hue.

The black ink used to display the district seal on your note has been diluted to a lighter color (brown) by whatever spilled on it (probably coffee or coke or the like).
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That makes sense as you can clearly see a darker stained area on more than half of the note. The actual color in hand is purple (dark on the scan) and looking at the reverse in the light you can clearly
see the seal through the note and it is red from that side.
Thanks. Might be fun to experiment with some other notes on stain spills etc.
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