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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1900380, member: 11668"]The torch, and all of the other background-color elements, are part of the underprint--applied before any of the intaglio printings.  Then the "first printing" is the back intaglio plate and the "second printing" is the face intaglio plate, and the "third printing" or overprint is the seals and serial numbers. The terminology gets a bit confusing on the colorized notes, since the colors are applied *before* everything else, but collectors still seem to use the first/second/third terminology the same way they did for non-colorized notes.  Maybe the colors are the "zeroth printing"?  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Or maybe we ought to avoid the first/second/third language since it no longer means what it sounds like it means.... But back on the topic of this thread: no, the pictured note does not exhibit a BEP printing error.[/QUOTE]