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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1099171, member: 11668&quot;]Why does anyone go to the trouble of faking anything?&nbsp; To make a profit off of ignorant buyers....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That said, I&#039;m not sure whether this particular note is a fake or not.&nbsp; If so, it&#039;s a well-executed one, made by somebody with a good bit more knowledge than most of the Ebay jokers.&nbsp; The correct parts of the design are doubled vs. not-doubled, and the different plate number is appropriate.&nbsp; (Notice also the way the plate numbers 336 and 337 have slightly different spacing--which would be true on a genuine note, since the numbers are engraved into each plate by hand and do show this kind of variation.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Still, this is a CU note, so it&#039;s not at all unlikely that it was recently part of a consecutive run.&nbsp; A faker could simply have scanned the *next* note (which would&#039;ve had a different plate number), erased the parts that shouldn&#039;t be doubled, and printed the result onto this note.&nbsp; It would&#039;ve taken a bit of Photoshop work to extract the green seal from the ONE behind it, but it can be done.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So for myself, I&#039;d put this firmly in the category of notes I&#039;d never buy uncertified on Ebay: it might be real, but it might very easily be fake.&nbsp; Like you, I&#039;d want to see this one in hand before I gave the seller any money....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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