Good morning all. I’m new here and looking for some advice. I have 100 1$ bills ( mostly sequential) that have what appears to be a finger print that is printed in the same exact spot on all the bills on the reverse . Any value to these?
Interesting! So, I pulled out two singles from my wallet and it wasn't obvious until I used a 10x loupe, but they have the exact same "marks" in the exact same place as yours. So,...??????? Perhaps some kind of security feature, more accentuated on your notes. Maybe someone else has more info on this.
I think it's caused by the printing plate embossing the design from the other side into the paper, look at the other side, the lines in the design match.
I think you are exactly right...from George's topcoat... (It's nearly 1pm on Sunday, but it's still too early for me!!!! )
I believe it comes from the freshly printed notes being stacked after having the serial numbers applied during the overprint. It’s not on all $1 bills, but it’s not uncommon.
You have 100 $1 bills, not 1$, the Dollar symbol goes before the number They are not fingerprints. They are worth $1.00 each
The bills were printed, cut and stacked. The ink was still wet in that area. The lines are not fingerprints but Lines from Washington’s coat. They are worth $1.00 each as it’s not enough to make a paper bill collect take notice. Welcome to CT.
I seem to recall some years ago that the number of vertical lines running through the "S" indicated if it was US or other currency. Doesn't seem they do that anymore. Any information about the differences now between two vertical lines vs one vertical line running the length of the "S"? From memory (and I could be wrong) but when I was a kid buying a magazine, the cost was in Canadian and US. It seems the Canadian dollar sign had one vertical line while the US dollar sign had two. This was one way I was able to tell which price the magazine cost.
That is not quite true. The ink used is proprietary. That is a security feature, as was the addition of iron to the ink used to print currency in the early 1980's. The "paper" stock used, which is a combination of cotton and linen that is not available for purchase by the public, is propriety. That is a security feature. The continued usage of the intaglio printing process is a security feature, as are the usage of serial numbers. And finally, unless I missed something, the usage of blue and red fibers in said cotton and linen mixture, which was invented by Benjamin Franklin, is a security feature. I count six security features right there. One dollar bills may have fewer security features than newer higher-denomination notes but they still have plenty of them. They're just not as apparent to the general populous but modern counting machines and bill validators (such as those used by vending machines or at casinos, etc.) do a pretty good job of recognizing most of these not-so-obvious features.
