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Special => Error Notes => Topic started by: BWJM on March 13, 2005, 06:24:47 pm

Title: Strange 1974 $2 Back
Post by: BWJM on March 13, 2005, 06:24:47 pm

Someone contacted me not too long ago through my website, the Online Canadian Paper Money Museum with a question about the note featured in the attached photo.

I have no idea how this would have been created.  It is difficult to tell for sure which layer (the intaglio or the "plaid") was printed first, even with a magnifying glass.  The prefix is AGG, so it has an engraved back as opposed to a lithographed back.

I am not aware of anything within the normal printing process that could possibly have produced what I am seeing.

Does anyone here have any thoughts or ideas?

Title: Re: Strange 1974 $2 Back
Post by: Skylark on March 13, 2005, 10:31:13 pm

All I can say is WOW.
What about the opposite side?

Title: Re: Strange 1974 $2 Back
Post by: coinsplus on March 13, 2005, 10:52:03 pm

It looks to me that a wet hankerchief (brand new)was placed on the note and the colours/designs transferred from the hanky to the $2 note.  That's my opinion.   :-/

Title: Re: Strange 1974 $2 Back
Post by: Gary_T on March 13, 2005, 11:01:17 pm

 Looks like it was done after and the more I look at it the more the wet hankerchief idea makes sense.

Title: Re: Strange 1974 $2 Back
Post by: BWJM on March 13, 2005, 11:08:53 pm

That's what I was thinking initially too.

BTW: The front of the note is normal.