I have 7 crisp 2003 A 1 dollar bills that all have an ink thumbprint in the same exact spot, almost as if the stamp was like that. Is this a common error. I don't know much about currency but am willing to learn. Please let me know if you would like to see photos.
I could be wrong for sure, but if you have 7 notes in a row then you have notes from 7 different sheets. The chances that a smear - much less a thumbprint - would be repeated exactly on 7 sheets seems slim. Furthermore, I am not sure that human hands are involved in the orintin gprocess (I would hat eto get my hands near thise prssses). Could be from the BEP guys checking sheets, or from a messy bank teller. MAYBE a BEP ink print would be worth something (not sure), but not the bank teller.
The it is the same exact thumbprint. I have verified it with my 12x loupe and it is definitely a fingerprint. The are consecutive bills serial #'s J12456950A thru 56A.
Here is some of the photos i have taken, it almost looks like the fingerprint was embedded in the material of the currency, with little blotches of ink. I recieved 2 of these notes from the bank and then I asked if there were anymore in sequence and this is what I recieved. Being a coin guy all the girls at the bank think I am wierd anyways, only being 25 yrs old and doing this for my hobby but oh well, I couldn't be happier looking at money!!
That's not a fingerprint. That's ink bleeding through from the obverse portrait of Washington. Because of the nature of intaglio printing, this does happen from time to time. It means simply that there was a touch too much ink on the press. It had to go somewhere, so it went through the paper.
Then why would it look like a fingerprint, or a rippled effect yet it really didn't bleed any ink? and it is on every one of the bills
Just as I had suspected also KLJ and it looks like a print but the ink just sits and/or bleeds on the ridges or fibers in the dollar itself ! Spend them tdec1000
Or keep them as an intresting piece. i mean its only $7. I was thinking it wasnt a finger print...i mean how could somebody make a finger print in the exact same spot on 7 Different bills. Heck, i cant make a fingerprint twice in teh same spot on teh floor when the mark is still on the floor.
That is absolutley not a fingerprint. Quite frankly, the info I gave earlier about the sheets should have pointed you to look for another reason, and after seeing the pics it is clearly the phenomenom that is very familair to anyone who examines their cash closely. The bottom of the portrait area is among the blackest and therefore most heavily engraved areas, and the pattern you see is from the engraved image on the other wide. Just turn the bill over and you will see that the design corresponds to the portrait details.
