These two notes sold on eBay a couple of weeks ago and something’s been troubling me. Even though they’re not mine I hope if I post pictures of them on CPMF someone might help me figure out what caused the errors.
I can tell right away it’s not the result of a simple ink transfer from one note with wet ink touching another note because the transfer would be mirrored and these ink errors are not. So if it is an ink transfer then it would have had to be transferred at least twice to show up on the front this way. Or could be a sheet was printed with only the green ink but really really sloppy like the pictures illustrate but instead of the sheets being discarded they were mistaken for good sheets and flipped over and reprinted with both the black ink and green ink again. I’d like to accept either of these explanations if it wasn’t for the fact that the messed up green print on both notes have the same goofs and smudgy appearance as if the notes were printed at the same time but their serial numbers aren’t even close. Although the errors certainly look real to me in the pictures and could very well be, I’m also taking into consideration they might be altered too. I have no experience with the seller but I am aware that it’s the same seller that was selling regular notes and calling them counterfeits a month ago. With a track record like that it’s not hard to believe that they’re selling regular notes calling them errors. Was someone clever enough to figure out how to fake this?
I’m not sure why I’m interested maybe it’s because I wanted them for myself but decided not to bid and now I’m looking for someone to validate my suspicions or tell me I’m just paranoid.
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