Hello, My wife has had this dollar bill for many years and we've never really known if it's worth anything. We're wondering if it's more common than we realize or if it's rare. We're just really curious. If it's worth something then we might sell it -- or would that be dumb? The front top right corner seems to have an offset of some other bill that was on top of it? The back seems to be all normal.
I'm all about coins, and don't know much about paper money..but that is an interesting bill. I'd keep it.
You might have something there. It might be another paper dollar still being wet that was folded accidently and placed on top of it. We'll let the experts talk - I'm not a paper expert but that seems to be quite an interesting item you have there. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
I just read a similar thread a couple of days ago... I am just learning about paper myself, so I won't comment farther than to say it looks very much like the error mentioned here. http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=17311
It's a fold-over error. I really don't know much more, except for the fact that I got a $2 in change with that same error except it's on the reverse. Nice error you have there, and thanks for sharing. I'd keep it if I were you, not a huge premium, but a premium non the less for the error.
The sheet before this one had the corner folded over when it went through the press to have the back printed. Since the corner was folded down the ink from the printing plate was transfered to the backing board. Then when this sheet was printed the back was printed normally and the front side of the paper picked up the ink from the backing board. This continued on the other sheets that came afterwards until the ink was all gone. It is called an offset printing.
