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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 303322, member: 8247&quot;]These are two consecutively numbered 1995 $20 FRN&#039;s completely missing the first printing.&nbsp; It&#039;s my understanding that the usual cause for a missed printing is two sheets stuck together, so it&#039;s relatively rare to get two consecutive sheets that miss a printing completely.&nbsp; The likely culprit for these two is that the blank sheets were put back in the wrong pallet following an inspection, followed by a close second possibiliity of three sheets being fed at once for the first printing.&nbsp; What also adds to the rarity is that by the nineties, there were both electronic and human inspections for errors.&nbsp; There is an automatic step where the notes are fed passed an inpecting station where they are flipped giving two inspectors a chance to see the complete FACE and BACK of each sheet prior to the overprinting being applied.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did buy these notes at auction, but it appears that they came out of an ATM machine as evidenced by the marker along the top edge.&nbsp; It is commone for ATM cartridges to have identifying information and inspector information to be written directly on the edges of the notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I like to do to someone who is just seeing my collection for the first time is to hand them a normal 1995 $20 FRN and one of these errors in such a way that they can&#039;t see the reverse.&nbsp; While using body language to imply that the error is on the front, I would tell them that one of the two notes has a CRUCIAL ERROR that any person with an IQ above 80 can see.&nbsp; I try to see how long I can get them to study the faces of the two notes trying to figure out which one has the error.&nbsp; The longer it takes them to find the error, the better the look on their face, especially if they give up and ask me to point it out to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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