Never before seen - security thread protruding! What to make of it???

I just received this 1917 $1 Legal Tender.

Upon close examination I found something I have never seen before.

The embedded security thread is protruding from the edge of the note! There is also another piece on the other side of the note that is also protruding, but not as pronounced as this.

Is this an error? Any added value? How do I preserve this piece of thread?

 

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I twirled the thread back together to try to keep it intact. Here it is, even more close up.

 

I'm not a note expert but have you checked the size of the note to make sure it wasn't trimmed?

 

Not that uncommon - I've had them worming out of the paper before, surprising how thick they feel isn't it? As far as preserving it - why would you need to do anything? It lasted almost 100 years, what did you plan to do with it that would put it in jeopardy?

 

It's a wild hair, pull it. :goofer:

 

The size is identical to other notes, so no trimming took place unless it had unusually large borders to begin with.

 

So a TPG wouldn't even make a remark about it?

 

Since the notes were cleanly cut (originally...I assume so, anyway), one would think that the thread wiggled its way loose after leaving the BEP. As interesting as it is, I can't imagine it's an "error".

Note: I know very little about paper money so please take my comments with a grain of salt.

 

I suspect it wasn't cleanly cut. The thread didn't wiggle out. It traversed the part where the note was cut, but wasn't severed.

 

I wouldn't worry about it much, I've had a few like that and a sharp scissors took care of it, then it looked normal like the rest of my notes.
Bill Collector

 

How dare you cut off your note's dingle dangle.

 

heres something even odder before putting my old canadian penny in a 2x2 under my loop i found a string or wire that very same color sitting on the coin

 

I have many UNC/GEM UNC large size notes in PMG/PCGS slabs with security threads protruding from the edge. No error, not very strange at all, if anything it is desirable that it is still "pack fresh"

 

Well like I said, I've had a few of them, none of the dingle dangles were long enough to tie together so away they went, the notes look a lot better now, but I saved them so I could prove they were there, now my notes look like they should. I like nice looking notes and I want them to look like everyone else's notes.

I cant stand to have a notes that are screwed up in any way, when I get new notes from the bank if any of them are screwed up I send them back, I once had a $ 5.00 FRN note that had a $ 1.00 back, that really up set me and when I took it back to the bank they would not exchange it for me, they said I must have done something to it and it was illegal to be defacing US currency like that, I had a hard time spending it because everyone thought it was fake. I finely passed it off in a dark bar, got two beers for it. Sometimes life is hard.
Bill Collector

 

WOW, That's a shame, goes to show ya you cant trust them Canadians, were you able to scrap it off ok.
Bill Collector