How does this happen?

How does one or two numbers in a Serial be higher
or lower than the rest of the number?
Is there much of a premium for this type of error?

thanks
kona

 

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i see the 2 but not sure

 

Also the 1 in the upper left although not as much of a drop. Have no idea how it occurs.

 

The printing of serial numbers is done with a mechanical numbering machine similar in principal to the common "Bates" stamp. If the number advance mechanism isn't working precisely, a digit may be slightly out of alignment. If the misalignment isn't too far off, the number will still print, just out of position.

Considering the speed at which the Bureau of Engraving presses are running, the amazing thing is not that there are occasional misaligned numbers, but that there are so few of them.

 

what you have is very common, for there to be a premium for the note, you would have to be missing part of the digit, or in worse case, you would see half of the digit that is supposed to be there, and half of the previous digit - those would fetch a nice premium