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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 307672, member: 8247&quot;]I believe what the closeup of Washington&#039;s portrait shows is the result of the ink sticking to the printing plate instead of the paper.&nbsp; If there is not enough pressure, the ink won&#039;t sufficiently stick to the paper and will remain with the plate.&nbsp; I believe when they first redesigned the $5 in 1996, they had a major issue with this in Lincoln&#039;s portrait.&nbsp; They had used lines that were too &quot;fine&quot; for the pressures that they used during printing.&nbsp; I never saved any of them, but I believe they released millions of dollars worth due to time constraints.&nbsp; Your closeup is what they looked like where the ink stayed with the printing plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe other notes on the same sheet had the same problem to a greater degree (aka much more obvious) and that would be another possibility that an inspector would flag the sheet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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