Is this $1 worth any more than $1?

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WOW, I did not see that!

 

If the OP folds the dollar along the creases, it should match up with the serial number and you can see how the error occured

 

Interesting. If you fold that corner down it will complete the serial number. So it was folded while it was being printed.

 

Good call. I hadn't noticed myself, but it is there!


I appreciate everyone's quick responses. This is a very helpful community!

 

You learn something every day. Keep coming back.

 

@stoicfire just out of curiosity did you find that in circulation?

 

stoicfire, private message sent.

 

Yes. I found it in circulation, and I wish I could remember where. I was in high school when I found it, and I remember thinking it was neat and that I wouldn't spend it. I ended up keeping it in a box and forgetting about it for something like 10 years. I've been looking for information for the last week or so, and I think I finally have a good understanding of what must have happened to cause it (and I think possibly an approximate value). But yeah, I'm glad I held onto it even when my friends said it must be fake.

 

wow just imagine how many hands it went through and no one caught it until you, good instinct on holding onto it and congrats. It gives me a bit of hope that i can find one of these in the wild, I'm just getting started in collecting paper money and would be estatic to find this

 

When the BEP printed that note, it was in a sheet, which was included in a stack of sheets. The fold was in the whole sheet when the serial number was printed and placed back in the stack. When the notes are cut, they cut the stack all at once, not the individual notes, so from that stack there would have been several error notes cut but they wouldn't all be banded together. If they weren't caught, someone got the note that was above yours on the sheet, but they may have been clear across the country.