here is my newest purchase, a 1950B $10 bill in very good condition. its well circualted with a taped rip on the right bottom side only about half inch long maybe running on the border of the margin and the design. also has those stupid counterfiet pen marks on the right side. got it for only $11 plus postage so i'm not complaining!
They don't look like it, but is it possible that the markings on the right are from a counterfeit pen. The pen usually comes out black on a note as old as this one, so they wouldn't like like the markings we are all used to. If they are, that's one thing that could still fade away completely. They did on a similar $20 bill that I had gotten awhile back.
I wonder if those marking might have come from a kid writting on the bill ? You know we have all written on a bill sooner or later...perhaps a birthday card stuffer?? Nice for $11..... RickieB