Is this an error? Everything except for the serial numbers, and the seal are faded away. I thought that it might have just gone through a washing machine or something, but wouldn't the serial number be faded too? P.S. I also got 2 series of 1976 $2 bills. Are these worth a premium? I usually keep the older $1s that I find.
Well it is possible...the 3rd printing of the Seals and Serial Numbers is quite regular...it could be an underinking. I am not totally sure. Perhaps Numbers will come by later. I am just starting to dig into errors a little. I find it interesting to say the least. How is the reverse? Please post that image as well. RickieB
I'll take a guess that something came in contact with that bill and affected one ink color and not the other,maybe bleached out in a washer or something,imho.
In Dr. Bartt's Error Book 3rd Edition he reveals that inking errors will most of the time affect the entire side of the note. Since this occurs in the first and second printing stages, it makes sense that the 3rd printing of the Seals and SNs are crisp and inked well. I have my reservations about this coming into contact with a substance that effects only some of the inks, however, (I could be wrong)...the ink formulation while unknown to me should have all the inherent characteristics of any ink used for security printing. He also mentions that when the Gov implemented the use of newmagnetic inks, it has given rise to a new breed of inking errors as alternate fountains were filed with both magnetic and non magnetic inks. This may give a resemblance of a checkerboard apperance... You can contact Dr. Bart at www.executivecurrency.com I would be interested in finding out what really happened here. Regards, RickieB
Errors aren't really a subject I know much about, I'm afraid.... But I am a spender of $2 bills, and I can tell you that I've run across plenty of 1995 $2's that look more or less like this. I don't know if it was a bad batch of ink or what, but for some reason the $2's of that series do have a tendency to exhibit this wear pattern, with the intaglio ink looking very worn even though the paper's not too limp and the third print's still fairly bright. Yours is a fairly extreme example, but still, I doubt that it's a printing error--it was probably perfectly normal-looking when it left the BEP. If I found it in circulation, I'd spend it without a second thought.... And 1976 $2's are still quite common. When I pick up a strap of used $2's at the bank, they probably average about 25% 1976's. I generally try to save any especially interesting ones (consecutive runs, stars, notes cut from uncut sheets) but all the rest get spent. It's actually tougher to find nice 1995 $2's than nice 1976 $2's, due to the wear issue with the 1995's mentioned above!
Heres a scan of the reverse That may be the case... There is something similar on another series of '95 bill that I got, although its not nearly as severe. Here are some scans. Its most noticable around Jefferson.
Like Dr. Bart said.. a inking error will usually effect the whole side of the note and you have this on both sides. I say it a very good chance for this type of error. RickieB
Do These actually have some kind of reporting? You would think that Something like this coming out in any quantity would have been detected By the mint??
