My wife brought home a $1.00 Federal Reserve Note from work. Reason it looked strange. When your looking at the front of it you can see the back in reverse and upside down. But the back of the bill looks fine, its just the front. If this makes sense the ONE on the back runs thru Washingtons head backwords and upside dow. I tried taking a picture but camera isnt that good. Any help would be nice, Thanks Jim
Ok, I will try to get a picture. I think that is what it was, it was place on the next bill before it was dry. I dont think its that rare.
You most likely have what's known as an offset error. The value is dependent on a few factors: 1- the extent of the transfer (does it only cover a portion of the note or the entire note), 2- the darkness of the transfer (darker is better), and 3- the condition of the note. This error doesn't occur from notes being stacked while wet. Rather, it happens when a sheet doesn't fully enter a press. The impression cylinder and the printing plate come in contact with one another, when there is no paper in between. The ink gets transferred from the plate to the cylinder. When the next sheet is successfully fed, the cylinder (now with ink on it) applies a mirror image of the design to the opposite side of the sheet. As more sheets are fed through, this offset image gets lighter and lighter. The first impression is the darkest and will usually bring the most amount of money.
The fact that the image is upside down is troubling. I have never seen an offset transfer error where the transfer is upside down. In fact, in order for this to happen, the sheet would have to be fed into the press the wrong way so the good image on the other side would also be upside down.
I caught that also Lettow. There is one other way this could happen. A faux error created on an injet printer that was eventually returned to the bank as it was too obviously a phoney to sell on-line and made it way back to the bank.
Look at the note and see if the overprint, is flat or has depth. If flat, then it is a indirect transfer. If it has depth, then it's a direct print. The direct print in much more valuable, than the indirect. The direct is much darker than a indirect transfer.
Does it look something like this? I collect offsets when I can get a pretty good deal on them.. This is my latest addition..
well then..I would say you have a keeper.... here is another example for you..as mentioned above these do vary in darkness as with this example.. enjoy RickieB
