Sample US $1 bill

Hi
I have a 2001 series $1 bill that has Sample printed on it in red ink.

Seems like it could be fantasy money or the like. Can anyone please advise

 

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Not originally a part of the note. Counter stamped after leaving FRB.
The treasury uses the term 'SPECIMEN'.
It's a good note, but the counter stamp damaged it.
You might only be able to transact it at a bank as I wouldn't think a merchant would accept it, thinking it might be counterfeit or otherwise illegal.
It's a nice find, though, and if it were mine, I'd keep it.

 

Thank you, I will keep it and if I get the opportunity will get it assessed as to wether genuine or counterfeit, greatly appreciated.

 

No need at all for assessment, it's genuine, just damaged.

 

Thanks mate

 

Thanks for that photo, Clay. I looked for it, but apparently not in the right place.

 

I'm not a paper-money guy, but I'm having a hard time accepting this one as genuine. How did they get an offset white stamp below the red one? That's easy in Photoshop, not so much in the real world. It seems like you'd need a two-color transfer decal, and it would have to be a lot more opaque than usual for that white "shadow" to obscure the print underneath.

That, and the printing on the note looks crude to me, although that may just be the camera's limitations.

 

Color laser printer. Easy peasy.

 

Not on top of a genuine bill. Laser printers don't have white toner. They print "white" by leaving no toner at all on that spot.

 

It's actually a shade of blue, not white.
Screen print?

 

Definitely counterfeit. At max magnification of the image given you should see SOME sign of the colored fibers present in genuine US currency.

 

Not after correcting the white balance, I think.

Sure, you could do it that way -- but why?

Let me turn things around. What makes you think the bill is genuine? I see signs of low-resolution printing in the finely-textured areas, places where the ink appears to bleed in ways I don't expect to see on a real note, and a general "fuzziness" that I don't think is just due to the photo quality.

 

No one believes the overprint on the OPs note is genuine.

 

I went back and looked again, even increased my screen magnification, and now must agree that it does look like the entire note was printed on an ink jet printer. I stand corrected and apologize for my initial opinion.