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Special => Error Notes => Topic started by: johnny99 on March 21, 2009, 01:26:41 pm
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The attached note is advertised for sale on a well known online service. Does this note appear to have a valid error or a manufactured error? The asking price seems too low and we all know the old saying! Thoughts? Comments?
Thanks
Ken
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This error looks real, because usually fake errors like this look white around where the serial numbers used to be.
Just my opinion
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I would not buy this as an error until I saw a better scan. It is too well worn and looks like it could have been washed.
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I dont think I would every buy on of these notes, because of how many I see that are fakes.
But compared to the other ones that I know are fake, this one looks real.
The seller is asking $200 Canadian
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I would be reluctant to pay over face for a well circulated 1954 note which is apparently missing the serial numbers. Logically, is it possible for a note to remain in circulation, passing from hand to hand until it is well worn, if it has such a prominent error? I don't think so. Somebody would have put it away before it had received much circulation.
Every well circulated note with no serial number that I have examined has had the serial number removed after it entered circulation. For the reason explained above, you would probably be safer buying a very high grade note; besides, a high grade note would be more likely to show the effects of the treatment it took to get the numbers off if it was a fake error.
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I would be reluctant to pay over face for a well circulated 1954 note which is apparently missing the serial numbers. Logically, is it possible for a note to remain in circulation, passing from hand to hand until it is well worn, if it has such a prominent error? I don't think so. Somebody would have put it away before it had received much circulation.
Every well circulated note with no serial number that I have examined has had the serial number removed after it entered circulation. For the reason explained above, you would probably be safer buying a very high grade note; besides, a high grade note would be more likely to show the effects of the treatment it took to get the numbers off if it was a fake error.
You make a very good point!
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Indeed.
Thanks all for the input.
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I would be reluctant to pay over face for a well circulated 1954 note which is apparently missing the serial numbers. Logically, is it possible for a note to remain in circulation, passing from hand to hand until it is well worn, if it has such a prominent error? I don't think so. Somebody would have put it away before it had received much circulation.
Every well circulated note with no serial number that I have examined has had the serial number removed after it entered circulation. For the reason explained above, you would probably be safer buying a very high grade note; besides, a high grade note would be more likely to show the effects of the treatment it took to get the numbers off if it was a fake error.
I concur with these comments completely. I too have personally observed several such notes and I remain convinced that each of them was a note that originally had serial numbers present.