ive got this north african 1 sil cert im curious is this considered an error?

if i printed it it would be a minor error, ive read up on errors in "paper money of the us" but its still unclear to me...i guess the criteria im using is the front is centered correctly yet the back is way off index. good or flawed thought process? please comment and dont pull punches! THX i didnt mention i was thinking a minor alignment error...

 

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Welcome to CT @brentjgordon .

I see it as a poorly centered, well worn note...not an error. When holding a note up to a light and checking front to back margin centering, this is called registration. I'm guessing this note has poor registration.

For future posts, can you try and orient the photos correctly. It makes it easier than have to turn our heads sideways.

 

A normal well circulated North African Note. Nothing special, they just don't make them any longer. While you note is not correctly centered, it is well within the acceptable means. It would only be an error if it was miscut and you'll have no doubts about one of those.

And yes, please post the pictures so we don't have to turn our heads. It gets rather uncomfortable.

 

Perhaps I am stupid, but what makes this Note a North African?

 

The yellow seal on a Silver Certificate.

 

During World War II The United States issued special currency for the island of Hawaii and for troops in North Africa. The Hawaii notes feature a brown seal and are overstamped with the word “HAWAII” on the front and back of the note. Some are silver certificates and others are federal reserve notes printed in San Francisco.

The North Africa notes have a striking yellow seal and are silver certificates. Both of these were very unique looking issues and many were saved by people as souvenirs. The only real rarity is the 1934 $10 North Africa note.

 

As an added note: if Hawaii got overran by the Japanese and Africa by the Germans, then both notes would be demonitorized without affecting the rest of U.S. currency.

 

sorry about that and i sure will

 

the yellow seal these notes were issued to troops in the north african theatre the logic was if the germans over ran us troops and captured a bunch of us currency there would be some way to identify that currency in this case the yellow seal, there were also brown seal notes issued in hawaii for the same reason concerning potential japanese invasion...the only stupid question is the one you dont ask!

 

I have a couple of these and enjoy the history behind them as well. I wonder if they added the overstamps to the HI note because they had more fear of the Japanese overrunning HI than they did of the Axis powers being victorious in the NA/EU theater?