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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 854931, member: 11668&quot;]First of all, if you&#039;re looking for a cutting error of that sort, you need to be aware that the *great* majority of those found on Ebay are artificial.&nbsp; That is, somebody bought an <a href="http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/uncutcurrency.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/uncutcurrency.aspx" rel="nofollow">uncut sheet of currency from the BEP</a>, and chopped it up funny with a paper cutter.&nbsp; The results look pretty cool, but they&#039;re not really error notes, and they&#039;re not worth anywhere near the prices of actual cutting errors.&nbsp; (Though if you want to pay a few bucks for one just to impress your friends with it, go for it.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nearly all of the uncut sheets sold this way have very high serial numbers (over 96000000, and most often over 99000000).&nbsp; These days, currency printed for circulation only uses serial numbers up to 96000000 (except for $50&#039;s and $100&#039;s, which go to 99200000).&nbsp; That&#039;s a quick way to evaluate whether or not a &quot;cutting error&quot; is likely to be legitimate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The BEP prints these uncut sheets in all sorts of odd run lengths, so the difference between adjacent serials on the sheet can be just about anything.&nbsp; Your example of 18,000 is particularly odd, though: I&#039;m going to guess that that note was a 2006 $1 in the C..A block, since that&#039;s the only sheet printing I know of that&#039;s used a skip of 18,000 serials between positions.&nbsp; (See <a href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/survey/sheets.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspapermoney.info/survey/sheets.txt" rel="nofollow">here</a> for what I know on the sheet printings; some of it&#039;s still a bit fuzzy at the edges....)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Currency printed for circulation, on the other hand, is produced in standard runs of 200,000 sheets nowadays, so serial numbers from consecutive positions would differ by 200,000.&nbsp; (Again, the $50&#039;s and $100&#039;s are different; they go by 100,000.)&nbsp; The standard print runs have gotten larger every decade or two, though; in the past, we&#039;ve seen standard runs of 40,000 sheets, 20,000 sheets, and 8000 sheets at various times for various denominations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Things get even more complicated if you want to think about star notes, since those are often printed in irregular partial runs anyway.&nbsp; But I suspect I&#039;ve already given you substantially more information than you really wanted, so I&#039;ll stop there....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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