This stuck digit isn't as dramatic as the others I've found but they are scarce enough that this one is worth hanging onto:
Dude seriously. where do you find these? Are you printing them yourself? You must have horse shoes in a place that will go unmentioned.
I'm a Chef in a restaurant that has a medium sized lounge with a dozen Video Lottery Terminals that bring in a fair amount of cash. I go through the cash everyday.
When I think about how much money passes through the hands of a cashier every day, it almost makes we wish I had that job! Business owner is even better!
As always, I am so impressed with your ability to catch so many of these notes and for the huge number of them that slips out of the hands of the Bank of Canada, LOL! Another great find. Since you feel a little OCD, do you keep a record of how many per year, per denomination you are finding? Any other statistical type information you glean from which notes have the errors, like which serial ranges, from which runs, that sort of thing? Someday you will have to make a thread with all your finds in one and just keep updating that thread as you add new notes. Keep up the good work! :thumb:
My OCD doesn't reach into the record keeping area. It's more like selective OCD. As for the stats, I leave that to others to work on. There are a few members on one of my other forums that does all the recording of information which includes other notes like replacement notes and changeover notes, which I have no interest in since those notes are usually found by stack searchers who hunt through new bricks. I check the auctions and some of the currency sites to see what other error notes have been found and keep track of those denominations, prefixes and type of errors. When I search through my stacks, I usually have a limited amount of time because I'm getting the cash ready for the bank deposit. I've trained myself to scan the notes very quickly. For the mismatched serial numbers, I no longer look at each individual digit of each serial number. Instead, I am looking at the shape of the entire serial number. This is just like looking at those "What's the Difference?" picture games where they show you two images that look identical but have minute differences between the two. When I scan banknotes, the notes with anomolies pop right out. I've had teach myself this because sometimes I have only a half hour to go through 800-1000 banknotes. I may miss some errors (I hate thinking that) but I think my method has proven itself with the number of error notes I've found.
