1950 D $100 with the date shifted down a little. I haven't seen any like this, but at the same time, I haven't looked at many. Should I keep the line moving and give it to my next customer?
Not only is the Series and date printed low, so is the green seal over the 100 on the right side of the bill. That seal should be centered from top to bottom without going lower than the base of the 100.The bills looks clean with minimal use. Only a slight worn or bent edge at the top right above the word Reserve Note. I'd keep it as it's an error in printing. Nice find.
I agree with Collecting Nut about the $100; good find! When you have a chance please post a pic of the $5 red seal. I've been looking at printing shifts in those for a long time and would like to see yours when you have a chance.
I will post one in a few when I get the chance probably and the next few minutes. The banks had a 1934d Silver Certificate $5 and the 1928e Red Seal plus a '47 dime today
That 1928E isn't a print shift--that's the normal location of the date and the seal on that series. In general, the 1928-1934 notes have more overlaps like this than the later series. With the larger seals and taller serials, there wasn't room for everything to be separated. On some denominations a serial number tends to touch a border or a signature; on these $5's the seal tends to cover part of the series date. This wasn't considered a problem--after all, the seal already deliberately overlaps the legal-tender wording (it makes the notes harder to counterfeit photographically if the red and black printings overlap), so a few more overlaps aren't hurting anything. If you go back and look at the large-size notes, there are even more significant intersections between the intaglio and overprinted elements; on some designs it looks (by modern standards) like no space was left for the seal/serials at all, and they were just thrown on on top of everything else. The 1950D $100 with the series into the border is more unusual; by then, the seals and serials had been shrunk, and there was enough space that the various bits of the design were generally separated. But I still doubt that an overlap this small, on a denomination this high, is likely to generate much interest as an error....
