Hello everyone. I've been lurking around here for awhile and it seems this is a place with a bunch of nice folks. I have some cu silver certificates that I would like to share some pics of. But first I have a question about what you make of this $20 that my wife recieved as payment as a hairdresser. It looks as if it's some sort of overprint? Here's the front Thanks for any/all input! Bobby
its not an overprint. check out the writing on the ghosted text... it is in reverse. if it was an overprint - it would be the text right side up. still a cool note, but only worth the $20 just get a note wet, and press them together, the ghosted image should appear. for it to be this strong is a bit unusual. It might have happened in the BEP while the note was first bundled - it could have beena wee bit wet.
Hi Bobby Lee welcome to the world of Paper Now me I would keep that, ok it might well not be worth a lot more than face but it makes a great talking point :smile
if you can afford it .. i would keep it as De Orc mentioned. You can always spend it down the road if you are in a pinch for cash. It is certainly a neat note though.
Welcome to the forum! I would keep the note if you can. It is a cool conversation piece. I kept my first star note found in circulation even though its only worth a dollar. That first one has sentimental value..............right.
well, I guess it is now you define error. Since the ink bleed is not meant to occur, but does, just as an offcenter coin strike is not meant to happen, but does. So..........ah donno.
It's an offset transfer. Yes, it's an error, and it's worth a substantial premium; see here for another example (it's back-on-face instead of face-on-back, but same idea). This error happens when one sheet of currency paper is torn or folded, or when the press just goes through a cycle with no paper in it at all. The result is that some or all of the ink intended for that sheet instead ends up on the backing that presses the sheets against the printing plate. When the next sheet comes along, that ink is transferred to the wrong side of that sheet, forming a mirror image of the note design. The next few sheets usually show similar offsets too, though they get successively fainter until they vanish completely after perhaps eight to twelve error notes are printed. The value of the note depends on its condition, of course, and also upon the strength of the offset image (darker is better). Hope this helps!
I agree with Numbers on this one. I have several of these notes and to say the least, they were all expensive! RickieB
My bad lol i thought i had read here on another thread about notes liek this were ink transffers from another note. certianly didnt mean to steer you wrong and now.. its even more a keeper
It is a nice error note. Error notes are one of the popular specialized area of banknote collection. It is an expensive area of specialization.
Oh no I just spent it on Coin World magazines.......... :smile:whistle: Ahh just kidding. I'll just have to keep it! Thanks for all the info guys. Much appreciated
