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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1317293, member: 11668&quot;]No, that&#039;s not the idea.&nbsp; What happens is that the intaglio press misfeeds, so that it tries to print without having any paper in it.&nbsp; The inked printing plate then comes into direct contact with the &quot;blanket&quot; that&#039;s supposed to squeeze the paper against the plate, leaving ink on the blanket.&nbsp; On the next press cycle, the next sheet gets ink on both sides: a normal image on the face, from the printing plate, and a reversed image on the back, from the ink on the blanket.&nbsp; The next few sheets after that may also show reversed images on the back, each progressively fainter, until all the ink on the blanket is gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes, instead of the original sheet being missing entirely, the original sheet will have a corner folded down, or a piece torn off.&nbsp; Then only part of the note design will end up on the blanket, producing a partial offset like the one slippinin posted in the other thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, again, based on the images posted in this thread and that one, I see no basis for the level of suspicion that some forum posters are exhibiting.&nbsp; Fake errors exist, but genuine errors also exist.&nbsp; Typical fakes of the sort found on Ebay don&#039;t look as good as these notes.&nbsp; It&#039;s not reasonable to suggest paying TPG fees &quot;just to be sure&quot;, when there&#039;s so little reason to doubt that these errors are genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Also, feeling the ink and the paper of a note with one&#039;s hands is an excellent way of judging its authenticity, and is not at all inappropriate.&nbsp; That&#039;s why some experienced collectors avoid TPG&#039;d notes: precisely because they can&#039;t examine the note themselves when it&#039;s sealed in a TPG holder.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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