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<p>[QUOTE="Notaphylic_C, post: 8405256, member: 130786"]-Good question. I think it was the upper numbering tumbler that went awry (with the last 3 digit being high/out of position). I doubt there would have been more than a dozen, perhaps 20 might have passed QC. But when it comes to the numbers of notes that pass inspection, that's a drop in the bucket (needle in the haystack). The real question is how many were caught? (& in GEM like mine: I doubt many)</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2007 we, in Canada, had a brief run of double-denomination errors (<a href="https://cdnpapermoney.com/index.php?topic=9784.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdnpapermoney.com/index.php?topic=9784.0" rel="nofollow">$10 notes printed on $20 paper</a>) so many of us searched our <b>BTT</b> & <b>BTU</b> $10 prefixes. Nearly 100 were discovered but I never found one. To find one, you would have had to have searched several bricks (several 1000 <b>BTT</b>'s or <b>BTU</b>'s) & the banks make that nearly impossible to do. Unless you happened to be in the business of money changing (ATM supply) or were a paying brick searcher &1 of the first searchers (ie: the 1st to discover the error). I looked at our SNDB (on <b><a href="https://cdnpapermoney.com/forum/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdnpapermoney.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">CPMF</a></b>) & recognize some of the collectors who got lucky. A lot of these things are a matter of great timing (& I never caught such luck in my searches).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Notaphylic_C, post: 8405256, member: 130786"]-Good question. I think it was the upper numbering tumbler that went awry (with the last 3 digit being high/out of position). I doubt there would have been more than a dozen, perhaps 20 might have passed QC. But when it comes to the numbers of notes that pass inspection, that's a drop in the bucket (needle in the haystack). The real question is how many were caught? (& in GEM like mine: I doubt many) In 2007 we, in Canada, had a brief run of double-denomination errors ([URL='https://cdnpapermoney.com/index.php?topic=9784.0']$10 notes printed on $20 paper[/URL]) so many of us searched our [B]BTT[/B] & [B]BTU[/B] $10 prefixes. Nearly 100 were discovered but I never found one. To find one, you would have had to have searched several bricks (several 1000 [B]BTT[/B]'s or [B]BTU[/B]'s) & the banks make that nearly impossible to do. Unless you happened to be in the business of money changing (ATM supply) or were a paying brick searcher &1 of the first searchers (ie: the 1st to discover the error). I looked at our SNDB (on [B][URL='https://cdnpapermoney.com/forum/']CPMF[/URL][/B]) & recognize some of the collectors who got lucky. A lot of these things are a matter of great timing (& I never caught such luck in my searches).[/QUOTE]
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