Here are a few uncut sheets I have hanging around... The nicest is the $20 with a 3 digit SN * RickieB
Nice man! Gotta love the uncut sheets. Be cool to have some uncut silver certs. Nice notes man. :thumb: Phoenix
RickieB, Do you/have you ever framed an uncut sheet? The only good display method I have ever found was from the BEP web page ... http://www.moneyfactory.gov/store/section.cfm/73/2422 But I would prefer a higher end display. Any thoughts?
Well that's because him and a few others on here just make them in there basements, all those New York notes had to have been to good to be true. Just joking, lol. Real neat notes you got there Rickie. :thumb: Phoenix
I rarely display any of my notes. Recall that most inks are light sensitve and fade over time..a long time but still fade. I keep them in a deep dark cool dry SDB well out of sight. RickieB
These notes are still available from the BEP....I ordered mine at 12:00 noon the day they were released...that was quite a while back... RickieB
They do, except when they don't.... The big exception are star sheets. Those generally represent leftovers from the circulation printings, so they've got normal serial numbers. Some of the recent shorter runs have clearly been printed purely for collector sales (2004A $10 GF..*, anyone?) but have retained the lower numbers anyway. Then there are a few weird products like the 1995 $5 H8888... sheets, too. But aside from those odd cases, the non-star uncut sheets all use serials over 96000000, and usually over 99000000.
Boy RickieB - If that $20 run was 656 we would have to have a long talk - you might just get every B that came into my wallet over a very long period of time ... Nice sheets!!! - Thanks for bringing them into the light - even if just for a scan! Regards Darryl
I'm a little curious about this new trend from the BEP. It used to be that if you came across an error note with a high serial number above the 96000000 mark you mentioned, it was highly suspect to have come from an uncut sheet. Now with the BEP releasing uncut sheets with lower serial numbers, that rule of thumb may just be useless now.
Numbers; Can I ask you were you are finding this information? I sure would like to know where to look for it. Thanks... RickieB
RickeyB - from his admission in another thread, he is the care-taker of the http://www.uspapermoney.info site that we point alot of collectors to. From what i have read on his site, he gets regular reports from the BEP and such. Along with that, from what i have read on his site fromthe notes in his collection - he must have been at it a long time
So would I. The BEP doesn't include the uncut sheets in its monthly production reports, so the only way to know exactly what's been printed is to keep up with what's turning up in the collector market. I've got a table of known serial blocks here, and an attempt at estimating serial ranges here, but I'm not entirely confident that either of them is 100% complete. In particular I know I haven't added the newest few sheets the BEP's printed; I've got to get over to Ebay and squint at serial numbers for a while to see what's out there....
it seems to me that you could buy one of those uncut sheets without the high serial numbers and cut them in weird ways and sell them on ebay. like rickie's not like he would but he could cut those $20's a weird way and then they would be error, star, low serial number bills!
It would be difficult to fool an experienced person if you only started with a 4 note sheet, but with a 16 note sheet, I'm willing to bet that I could produce some $500+ cutting errors that would fool even the moderately experienced. Historically, the extremely high serial number was usually the red flag for such forgeries.
well gatzdon, this is why we all ALL glad your one of the nice guys The high serials is the only defense i know of to these errors. And even then i dont know the number ranges off the top of my head. i always look up the serial ranges to be sure. So if there are other ways ... fill me in
The sheet is trimmed at least once before the final cut, but the margin is not fully removed until the final cut. So folded/cutting errors that affect notes on the edge would involve the margin of the sheet. Uncut sheets have this margin trimmed before the uncut sheet is sold. So, there is no way a scammer could "add" the margin back to the note. So if you ever see a so called folded/cutting error that is missing the margin, you should find that a highly questionable error. Also, it is highly improbable for a sheet to get folded between the printing of the overprint and the cutting of the notes. So if a fold should have affected the overprint, but the overprint is fine, this should be another red flag. Folds that are dramatic enough to affect the margin or overprint are not only highly desireable, they make it much easier to determine the genuineness of the error.
