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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 803827, member: 11668&quot;]Frankly, this is not the sort of question I&#039;d trust the TPGs to know anything about.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Example: If you look at notes from the late &#039;70s - early &#039;80s era, the font used for the serial prefix letters is subtly different from the font used for the serial suffix letters.&nbsp; The difference is most noticeable on the letter &#039;G&#039;, although the &#039;A&#039; and &#039;C&#039; and a few others are also distinguishable if you look closely.&nbsp; Anyway, if you happen to have a note from the G..G serial block, the two G&#039;s are quite different in appearance.&nbsp; But nobody pays any attention to this.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A guy I know got a few G..G notes (I think they were 1977A $1&#039;s?) and sent them to one of the big TPGs, pointing out the differing G&#039;s.&nbsp; The TPG put a notation on the holders about &quot;Mismatched Font Error&quot; or something like that.&nbsp; The notes were then sold on Ebay, where they fetched over $100.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again, <i>every single G..G block note from several consecutive series</i> has this feature--that&#039;s a couple hundred million notes--it&#039;s not an error by any stretch of the imagination.&nbsp; But the TPG apparently (a) had never noticed it before, and (b) was willing to certify it as an error anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It wouldn&#039;t surprise me a bit, therefore, if RickieB were able to get his $10 certified as some kind of error.&nbsp; It still isn&#039;t one.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not sure whether it&#039;s a difference in the amount of inking, or a difference in the amount of pressure applied to the paper.&nbsp; Maybe the one &#039;A&#039; wasn&#039;t mounted in its letter wheel just perfectly, so it stuck out a bit farther and contacted the paper a bit harder...or maybe it&#039;s a freshly replaced, unworn letter like RickieB suggests.&nbsp; All I know is, I&#039;ve seen lots of differences like this while collecting data on the actual font varieties described on <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/survey/aa.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/survey/aa.html" rel="nofollow">that page that&#039;s already been linked above</a>.&nbsp; (Indeed, the note pictured on that page has a rather &quot;heavy&quot; impression of the Early A, somewhat similar to the right serial on RickieB&#039;s note, though not quite as extreme.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The strength of the impression of the serial numbers often varies quite a bit from note to note, or from side to side of the same note.&nbsp; If you look at a bunch of notes, you can observe a continuous range from very light to average to very heavy.&nbsp; RickieB&#039;s note is pretty far out toward the heavy end of the scale, but it&#039;s still just a difference of degree, not one of kind--it&#039;s possible to find notes with A&#039;s that are intermediate between the two levels of thickness seen on this note.&nbsp; So it&#039;s not a different font, nor an error.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Still kinda neat to look at, though.&nbsp; Maybe try to find a note with an A even thicker than this one...they&#039;re probably out there.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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