So I came across this auction on eBay and found myself shocked by the current price... it appears to be a double-struck 1981 dollar bill. Is that real? And really commands that kind of premium? http://cgi.ebay.com/UNIQUE-FIND-DOUBLE-STRUCK-1981-US-ONE-1-DOLLAR-BILL-/380313391124
bills are not stuck - they are printed? i honestly dont know but i smell some sort of trickery or it is that rare.
It is for sure real. I have been reading about these multiple printing banknotes. Real ones do make you kind of dizzy when you look at them.
Very hard to imagine this one being real, maybe someone will give us an official answer. I note there are two different plate numbers, so the implication would be that the two prints were not from the same plate. But why would someone go to the trouble of faking this note but changing the plate number?? Very odd... I'd like to see this in person, it may be very obvious what happened based on whether both prints are intaglio. Dave
Why does anyone go to the trouble of faking anything? To make a profit off of ignorant buyers.... That said, I'm not sure whether this particular note is a fake or not. If so, it's a well-executed one, made by somebody with a good bit more knowledge than most of the Ebay jokers. The correct parts of the design are doubled vs. not-doubled, and the different plate number is appropriate. (Notice also the way the plate numbers 336 and 337 have slightly different spacing--which would be true on a genuine note, since the numbers are engraved into each plate by hand and do show this kind of variation.) Still, this is a CU note, so it's not at all unlikely that it was recently part of a consecutive run. A faker could simply have scanned the *next* note (which would've had a different plate number), erased the parts that shouldn't be doubled, and printed the result onto this note. It would've taken a bit of Photoshop work to extract the green seal from the ONE behind it, but it can be done. So for myself, I'd put this firmly in the category of notes I'd never buy uncertified on Ebay: it might be real, but it might very easily be fake. Like you, I'd want to see this one in hand before I gave the seller any money....
If you looked at the seller's Negative feedback, it appears that others have complained about "fake" items that he sold in the past.
