today i look at $500 dollar bills and found one 1988 and a 1993 and two * star notes but this are not the ones I think are special look at this 1999 note all the leters look like theres too much ink on all the black parts of this bill ....is this rare? dose it add to its value?
I don't know that it increases the value of the bill, it just looks like sloppy inking, I've seen it a few time, maybe one of the heavy paper guys can weigh in on this
It was very common for the ink to bleed. It shouldn't as this is DRY intaglio printing, but it happens.
some people keep the bills older than 1995, but i keep anything 1977 and older and 1981-1993 if they are crisp. if the 1988 and 1993 $1 are not crisp, spend them. i would also look up the star notes on the lookup. if they are common, spend them. take a picture of the back of the 1993 and we'll tell you if its a web note.:kewl: hold onto those cool serial numbers! nice finds!
Dry intaglio merely means that the paper is dry not the ink. (Before about 1957 they did wet intaglio printing where the paper was dampened before it was printed, This often resulted in some shrinkage of the notes as the paper dried.) So if the plates are too heavily inked I would expect to see something like this as they were stacked before the ink dried completely. This note probably also resulted in an "offset printed" not on the back of the sheet that came after it as some of the ink transfered to the back of that sheet. That is the problem with an "offset error". How can you tell if the offset image came from the press missing a sheet and transferring the ink to the backing plate which then re-transfered it to the following sheets, from a case where a sheet was just laid down on a printed sheet where the ink hadn't dried yet?
