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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 510689, member: 11668&quot;]It doesn&#039;t lower the grade because it&#039;s supposed to be there--it&#039;s part of the original engraving in the printing plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an image of a full 12-subject sheet handy (link, anyone?), but the marks are there to ensure the sheet is properly aligned when it goes through the cutting operation.&nbsp; There are a couple of horizontal marks at the midline of the sheet (so one&#039;s between the C and D position notes, and the other&#039;s between I and J), and there&#039;s also a vertical mark positioned dead center (so pieces of it might end up showing on the C, D, I and/or J notes).</p><p><br /></p><p>At various other times the marks have been located somewhat differently (e.g., I&#039;ve seen a few 1929 notes with a T-shaped mark rather than just the lines) and of course on the 18- and 32-subject sheets they&#039;re entirely different.&nbsp; On modern notes they&#039;re located far enough out in the sheet margins that you don&#039;t see them often on the finished notes, but occasionally they do turn up when a margin is cut wide; it seems to me that I see them more often on backs than on faces, a small green mark at a far corner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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