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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1142556, member: 11668&quot;]I&#039;m not an expert on errors, and I&#039;m not going to try to authenticate anything from a scan either, but for what it&#039;s worth, I think I can see how this could happen at the BEP:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The serial numbering presses count *backward* within each print run, so the note ending in 87 was printed first, and is normal.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 86 sheet would&#039;ve had to slip out of place just as the black overprinting reached this bottommost note on the sheet.&nbsp; It looks like the overprint *just* touched the sheet in its normal position (leaving faint traces of the top of the two upper 5&#039;s and the top points of the Fed seal) before the sheet slipped upward, leaving the overprint much too low.&nbsp; Notice that the misplaced 5 on the left side is weak at its upper left corner, and the 5 on the right side is weak along its entire top edge--and these are exactly the parts of the 5&#039;s that show best in their proper locations higher on the note.&nbsp; It looks like the black overprint was normal on the top seven rows of notes on the sheet, but that the sheet slipped just as the overprint was getting to the bottom row; thus the lack of any black overprint from the note above.&nbsp; (The seals and district numerals are mounted on a large rotating cylinder, so the overprint does travel down the sheet this way rather than hitting the whole sheet at the same instant.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The two 5&#039;s that should&#039;ve appeared at the bottom of this note missed the paper entirely, and landed on whatever backing is behind the sheets in the press.&nbsp; Then when the next sheet (the one with the 85 note) came through, in proper alignment, the fresh ink of those two 5&#039;s was picked up by the back of that sheet, producing the offset 5&#039;s on the back of that note.&nbsp; It&#039;s likely that the 84 note would also have (fainter) offset 5&#039;s on the back, and maybe a few more notes would have them as well, until all the ink was wiped away.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&#039;Course, just because it *could* happen, that doesn&#039;t mean it *did*.&nbsp; I&#039;ll join the chorus advising you to get these notes authenticated if you plan to sell them--you&#039;ll get a much better price if the potential buyers have no doubts about the genuineness of the error.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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