What's the value

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What's on the other side? It appears to be a $5 bill that someone ran through a copy machine to print the face on the back, but if you sent it to a TPG and they authenticated it as real, it could be worth something to an error collector.

 

So your saying it's fake?

 

See my edited post.

 

Ok I have a counterfeit detector pen and it passed but I will send it away to be authenticated. Thank you

 

Think about the printing process. If it was an overprint, why would it be backwards. You still haven't shown the other side.

 

http://www.bep.gov/uscurrency/howmoneyismade.html

 

I can show the other side

 

Those pens are absolutely useless.
And they damage the note.

 

Looks to be a full front-to-back offset print error.

Nice note.

 

Looks good to me. Before sending it in to be authenticated try taking it to your local coin shop and get their opinion. At five face I'd keep it either way.

Welcome to CT.

 

It's definitely a nice note and a keeper. But with the condition, I doubt getting it slabbed would be profitable, if that's your reason to do it.

 

Could it be that its is an image from the wet ink off of a sheet under it? Then that image would be backwards right?

 

No. This is not how this error is made. It is made when a sheet misfeeds and the plate comes in contact with the bed the sheet rests on. The image from the plate is transferred to the bed and gets picked up in reverse image on the opposite side of the next sheet.

 

Christ never use a counterfeit detection pen on a note you want to keep...

And nobody, I mean nobody counterfeits $5 bills. At least since the 1950's...

YES keep it it's $5 and an error probably worth a good $50.

 

OK, well close enough. Same principle right? Meow thinks if it is real, it does have a good worth. As something so easy to spot should have never been put out into circulation; Compared to like a small die chip on a coin, that is so hard to spot no one cares much over such minor laws.

 

Like the see through effect

 

You'd be surprised what people will counterfeit. One time I watched a television program from the year 2000 and someone used a counterfeit $5 note at a mall that was only printed on the front side! In about 2008 I found a torn $5 bill in a casino parking lot that turned out to be fake. I believe someone attempted to use it in a slot machine and tore it when they realized it was fake and couldn't be used. Then in about 2012 I was given some ones that were collected as part of a fundraiser and there was a low quality counterfeit $1 note in the batch! In each case low grade copiers were used for their production.

 

People sit on copiers and makes Xerox's of their ass, that doesn't make them involved in human cloning any more than photocopies count as counterfeiting - I reckon I am referring to true counterfeiting and not mere copying. To that end, you just don't see folks investing in things under $20's and really $50's and $100's since it makes little sense to go to all that production work for something that you could have gotten bagging groceries in the same time.

 

Great Lincoln's ghost! How common is that?
Spooky, haunting...
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