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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1415083, member: 19065&quot;]To the opposite of the positive posts, I will enter my typical, cautionary statement about such &#039;error&#039; notes...</p><p><br /></p><p>This note, like so many others that appear on this forum, is worth a $1 until you get it certified. Of course someone may be willing to buy it from you uncertified for more than a buck, but that doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s an authentic error without having done some more research to see if others from this Series/district and sheet with similar errors exists. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you think this note will be worth $500 or more, then the time and expense to have a TPG verify it, will more than pay for itself, especially if you intend to resell the note. Selling the note after it has been certified as an authentic error, will usually attract more buyers since it then bears the authority of a TPG and protects the collecting community from those who would try to sell fake error notes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if your note is real or fake, I&#039;m not making any judgement about the note as I would only entrust an expert with in-hand inspection to know the answer, and this usually precludes coin shop dealers. No one here can be sure without providing more conclusive evidence for this Series about the legitimacy of this note. Until then, I urge caution and strongly advise you have the note verified by an industry leading Third Party Grading (TPG) company such as <a href="http://www.pmgnotes.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pmgnotes.com" rel="nofollow">PMG</a>, <a href="http://www.pcgscurrency.com/g_scale.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgscurrency.com/g_scale.html" rel="nofollow">PCGS Currency</a> or <a href="http://www.usgrading.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usgrading.com/" rel="nofollow">CGA</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is rather important to seek verification as there are way too many fake error notes out there. As I said, we see them every few weeks showing up on this forum. A lot of members give positive comments but offer no way to verify the authenticity. These threads are rarely ever started by regular members of this forum site, and never by the strap-searchers who sort through gobs of cash all the time, especially nothing as dynamic as this error shows up from our regulars. These type of errors always are presented here by brand new members with just a couple of posts, who have no idea about what they have, who then, generally, never take any forum advice that would take time and money to have a TPG certify the note. Nor do such members ever report back with TPG grading results after these threads cool down and are forgotten. We never seem to see these <i>error note bearing members</i> again returning to show off an actual certified note they just happened to find. </p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly, some people find bad fakes in circulation and want to know what they have. They may even resell the notes and are done with them, never knowing what they may have had nor what they sold or what it could have been worth, certified, if indeed authentic. For all we know some percentage of these type of error note posts are hacks out there trying to see if a fake would pass in a pool of collectors before they try to pass it to a dealer or in an online auction site. Many here applaud anything remotely like this note that they see posted, and many in this thread are not even regularly posting in the Paper Money forum about notes, let alone error notes, to know the difference based on images that just show up here. </p><p><br /></p><p>The value may indeed go up, if certified authentic. Give it a go and help protect the paper money collecting community against the fakes out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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