2013 one dollar with 2 different serial # colors

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close up on the first 2 #'s

 

The left side of the note is also faded. I suspect some possible bleaching. Maybe someones wallet went through the washing machine. @mpcusa ??

 

I was a printer in my past. It could be that an employee was adding ink to the plate, and it was not mixed property at the time, or when applied to the plate fist did not spread completely, before they started printing again.

 

is this common or rare?

 

Interesting

 

I want to say rare. I have gone through many hundreds of thousands of ones and I've never seen serials on a note that were so different from each other in terms of their color. So now it comes down to whether it happened through artificial means such as bleaching or chemical alteration (intentionally or otherwise), being put through a washing machine, or if it happened during the production process at the BEP.

 

It could be an inking error. I worked with ink on gravure cylinders in my job also but we usually ran off product until the ink cleared up. Adding thinner gradually to get the right color and thickness. But I'm talking about syringes, not notes. Different animal altogether.

 

With the new LEPE overprinting equipment, the left serial and the right serial on each note are printed by two separate drums. The new computerized numbering heads are so bulky that they can't be crammed close enough together to print all the serials on a sheet in one pass.

So since the ink supplies are separate, it's possible that one batch of ink just wasn't mixed well, and this was the result.

(On the other hand, the note is sufficiently well-circulated that pretty much anything could have happened to it, so we can't be certain that it actually left the BEP looking like this....)

 

so is there a place I could send it to get check out to see if it is legit... like wex's?
and yes it is circulated

 

Color is for sure lighter, but i suspect one of the number
printers was running low on ink, and didnt mark the note
Dark like the other.

 

O and this is my first $880.00 1 dollar note hunt ever.

the right side is the normal one it would be kind of hard to alter the color with a washing machine it would make the note lighter in color not darker and it would be like whitewashed in color here is a pic of another note with the one posted


and fullback of note. IT'S under bright led lighting so the middle of the note looks off now the top is the back side of note the colors are all most a match to the front left serial#

 

If what was said of the new printing LEPe systems. Then there will be more ser#s that will not match later. With the 50 to a sheet. The cutting out of "Stars" will make all of us look more. The 32 sheet presses printed all #s on the same cylinder turn.

 

I took this to the coin shops around me and none of them have ever seen anything like it even took pic's of it and said that it had not been altered in any way they all so wanted my name and #

 

Just the way the ink was mixed or applied to the printing plate. Looks faded on one side, maybe from a strong light source.

 

thank you collecting Nut... but I know its an ink mix error and not IT IS NOT FADED it would look lighter in color not darker the serial #'s for the one dollar notes are bright green not dark green like the back of the note
NO one has seen this error and if you would have read my last post I took the note to the shops around here and they all say it is legit with no tampering to the note ie bleaching, machine washed, alteration

 

I may have found a $10 like this the other day. I stamped it for wheresgeorge but its still in my wallet
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Now, if this is rare, I wonder if it has any value to it.

 

I have no idea what it's worth that's why I am asking on forums and in my local coin shops NO one has ever seen it and all are saying it is valuable but want to ask other ppl about the note

 

when I was talking to the guy behind the counter even the customers were interested in the note and commented as they had NEVER SEEN anything like it
the dealer called another guy over and he said he wanted to call another guy about it. He had me give name and number so they could get back to me and took pic's of note O/R