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Message:: [QUOTE="Dougmeister, post: 2102641, member: 56842"]Wow. It's worth $6,500? Time to go get a stack of $10 bills from the bank...!<blockquote> The pre-printed stock error consists of an extraneous printing on the blank currency paper (or “stock”) prior to the application of the intended design by the presses of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In this particular instance, there is a vertically oriented black underprint beneath the torch to the right of Hamilton’s portrait.  As an anti-counterfeiting measure, the torch is executed with color shift ink, which changes hues as the note is moved from horizontal to vertical. This type of mistake ranks among the very rarest, far scarcer than the double domination error; both share the R-9 rating tier as shown in United States Paper Money, 3rd edition. Including this recent discovery, the entire census stands at less than one half dozen verified examples on all denominations and types of paper money; a testament to the absolute rarity of this type of mistake.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/bart-reports-series-2009-10-error-bill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/bart-reports-series-2009-10-error-bill" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/bart-reports-series-2009-10-error-bill</a>[/QUOTE]