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Message:: [QUOTE="jackeen, post: 138017, member: 5683"]It is unusual for a note to escape the entire third printing (seals and serial numbers). Usually it's either printed on the back or is "albino" - printed without ink, but with the impressions from the press there and visible. It's even more unusual for a large number of notes in sequence to escape entirely the third printing. The third printing is where legally a note becomes legal tender, and the accountancy of the sheets becomes even stricter. It has happened that imperfect sheets of notes that have gone through the first and second printings and are slated for destruction have been stolen, but this isn't the case here, as the notes have entered circulaton through normal channels. They are definitely legal to own. They are worth more than face value to collectors, 'though $400 seems a little steep when so many are found at once. (Re-reading the article, I notice they are supposedly poorly cut, as if by hand. If that's the case, they are most likely stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired)[/QUOTE]