Hello everyone! I found a u.s. $1 bill yesterday that is misprinted and miscut. It's not in the best shape and has been used and abused in its 19 years of circulation but I figured it would have some sort of value more than it's $1 face value. The misprint and miscut is in the bottom right portion of the front. Looks like it was folded somehow when it got printed and cut. The outer border of the ink got printed on the folded portion and when it was cut and unfolded is on an extra portion of paper that was left on the bill. I can put a picture up so everyone can see. I know a description is hard to go off of.
Yes. You need a picture. I'm curious as to why this bill you say you have has been in circulation so long and nobody noticed that it has a supposed printing error.
A possible reason is that the note was saved by someone because of the error, but, recently released by a relative that found it in his estate and spent it without knowing (or caring) that it had value or interest to others. It was just ONE DOLLAR!
Yes. The part was folded upwards and printed on. When it is open downwards you see that crazy fold. Interesting how it's been going around for such a long time.
It's a type of Gutter Fold. Those are usually through the center of the bill. I think there is something called a Butterfly Fold. Could be similar to that.
From what I can tell it looks like it was folded similar to when you fold a piece of paper like an acordian. Folded in then folded back over. Thought it was interesting for sure. Any value to this thing or just something cool to hang onto and show off? Lol
It was probably at the bottom of the sheet, and that part folded up into that area. Was processed and released. If not on the bottom of the main sheet, then after the first cut, it then folded afterwords before final trim cutting. Nice old example.
It's not as uncommon as one would think for this type of error to be floating around for years in circulation. Check out these examples I have, including a 1957 Silver Certificate gutter fold WITH a BEP rejection mark that STILL was heavily circulated! Now that's definitely curious.
CR Wallace those are some really awesome bills you have there. Crazy how it seems no one cares about those imperfections for so long and then we grab them up and try to save them.
