I am wondering if hard printing could be considered an error? I have these consecutive 20's that the serial numbers are pressed on so hard it seems the paper was trying to curl between the numbers. I wish I had a scanner, but this is the best I can do for you. Would these just be spenders? Thanks.
Nice job on the photos! That's called embossing, the compression of the paper from the printing process, and is a desirable trait, not an error. I don't collect US, so I couldn't tell you whether that particular note happens to be worth keeping, but unless there's some other aspect of it that makes it rare, just good or great embossing wouldn't be it.
When they are printing the numbers, and the inked area is light during a test, they add packing to the printing area, under the backing pad, of the backing blanket. If too much is added, it will print heavy on the paper. This it what you have. The first second printings, are from the intaglio plates. All others are not intaglio plates.
Cool thanks for the info you two! I saw these and was just very curios as I never saw anything like that. I will go ahead and spend at least I have some cool pictures now haha. Another question then...what if you have numbers that are very bold? My friend pulled out some consecutive 20's at dinner tonight and the 5th digit in was a 3 and on all of the notes he had (about 6 in order) only that number 3 digit was very dark and about 1.5 times the size of the other numbers. What might that be called? Is that anything rare either? He already crumbled his all up since he doesn't like crisp bills so if they WERE worth anything I'm sure they aren't now. Thanks again.
