http://cgi.ebay.com/MISMATCHED-SERI...eZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem DOES THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN? or is it perhaps just pencil erased?
Not overly familiar with how Canada prints notes but YES it DOES happen. At least in the U.S. so I would assume other countries as well.
hmm weird.. so then .. usually will the few after that be the same way? Or do they stop the print and recalibrate
well, each sheet could have the same error, up until the error is noticed and corrected. Assuming the same process as the US is used. One never knows how many errors were pulled and replaced either, so its tough to name a quantity or price. IMHO $599 is a bit steep for that type of error, but i am not very active incollecting error notes.
I think even a heavily circulated US note with a mismatched serial would fetch more than that. They are rarely noticed and I'd be willing to bet that most end up living a full life in circulation to be shredded by the feds without ever being detected. My guess is that there are probably hundreds of this canadian note found due to the condition. The most likely cause is that the dial stopped turning at 6 and all the 700 and up notes have this error until the problem was corrected (which may have never happened). I don't know how many notes are in a bundle in canada, but if someone was to bid on this note, I would assume that all the 700 and up notes in the bundle were saved followed by the possibility that only a strap was found/saved. I still dream of finding a brick of notes with mismatched serial numbers. I wouldn't be able to retire on it, but it would definitely boost my coin searching pile of money.
For what it's worth, here's a note I picked up on Ebay a few years back. It was just listed as a common silver certificate--the seller didn't even notice the error--so I managed to win it for $20-ish. I showed it to a local dealer (whose specialty is errors, so he knew something about it) and he offered $100, but I decided I'd rather have the note. This particular mismatch error is believed to have affected 20,000 consecutive notes, judging by the serials of known examples. (It actually grades around VF, by the way; the scan looks a bit better than the note for some reason....)
wow! that does surprise me gatzdon! it just seems high, especially when there could be hundreds of the errors released prior to the error being caught.I guess, like you mentioned, it comes down to how many are caught and saved!!
I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong. http://currency.ha.com/common/view_item.php?SaleNo=38021&LotIdNo=18012&txtSearch=&hdnSearch=true http://currency.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=37053&Lot_No=22229&src=pr http://cgi.ebay.com/1957-1-SILVER-C...05245648QQihZ017QQcategoryZ3415QQcmdZViewItem http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS49565+29-Nov-2007+BW20071129 "an Original Pack of Fr. 1930-B, 2003A $1 Federal Reserve Note Errors,Mismatched Serial Numbers that realized $50,370" ======================= And this last one is from the same run as your note Numbers http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/20...emQQcategoryZ52620QQihZ021QQitemZ310015076546 Apparently prices can go higher, but I'm guessing that the norm is $100 or more.
cool links gatzdon! still higher then i thought they would be, but certainly closer. i figured around the 150+/- range, so i did learn somethign today with a price adjustment lol
That 100 note pack of 2003A $1's got over $500 per note. and since it was found as a full pack, my guess is that there is a possibility that the entire brick was found out before being distributed meaning that someone may have another 900 of them in UNC condition.
I actually have a pre-war Iraqi 10,000 dinar note with mismatched serial numbers... not sure how common an error that was. On the upper left the serial number is 674298 but the serial number on the right is 674297. The serial number on the left also seems to not be as good of an impression (seems almost a little faded desipte the fact the note is still uncirculated or almost so as far as I can tell.)
it took me a minute to see the differance in those serials. I almost called you a liar i dont think i ever would have caught that, seeing as i cant even read it, i just look at the numerical 'pictures'.
Takes a while to get used to Arabic numbers lol... I have quite a few coins and a few notes from Arabic speaking countries so eventually learned the digits (it's ironic that we call the numbers we typically use "Arabic numerals" when in actuality they're from India...). Also had to learn the Islamic calender as many coins and notes are dated that way though more modern ones often have the Western date as well. Here's a good link for Arabic numbers: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabic/anumbers.htm They do read left to right, so it's a simple substitution, once you get used to them. As to the note in question I think it's possible that the left number printer advanced early while the right advanced normally, accounting for the fact that the left has a weaker impression and is one number higher than the right. Just a guess... could be the other way around for all I know (the left advancing normally while the right lagged). Again, I'm not sure how common or not this error is in Iraqi notes... but makes this note not just an interesting piece of history but a good error example as well. This is one of the last notes produced by Sadaam's regime at a time when inflation necessitated the need for higher denomination notes. The date on it is 2002.
