Blue Certificate Dollar Bill Value 1935 E Series

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Currency errors can be big bucks. And they may already be in your wallet …

I've been in the habit of asking for funny money when I go to our credit union. It's fun to spend money that's a little unusual. In the past, I've withdrawn a substantial number of $2 bills, a bunch of $1 bills, and a bunch of half dollars.

After getting the bills home, I could see that there weren't any red-seal $2 bills, but they're still neat to spend. Since I didn't really know too much about what kinds of currency errors were out there, I checked on eBay to see what people were selling. Here's what I found in the way of currency errors.

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Misalignment currency errors

A dollar bill with a misalignment error on the portrait printing on the front side.

Normal notes have an even border around the engraved picture on the front and back. Sometimes the framed part of the bill gets off alignment, and you'll have uneven borders, a chopped-off design, or even part of the next note's picture on it.

Misalignment in one of the printings

A dollar bill with a misaligned overprint. Notice how the seals and serial numbers are way off.

The green seal that overlaps the spelled-out denomination to the right of the portrait on the front, as well as the serial numbers on the bills, are applied in the third printing. (The first and second are back and front, I believe.) If this printing is misaligned, the seal will be off-center, or the serial numbers will overlap some other part of the bill's design. (One of the 1976 $2 bills I got has a misaligned seal.)

Ink smears

A dollar bill with a black ink smear error.

Just like what it sounds: black ink applied during the printing process gets loose on the bill. Each intaglio press uses over a ton of ink per hour and the ink on each printing takes three full days to dry, so it's tough to avoid smearing on every single bill.

Printing on the wrong side

A $10 bill with a third printing on the wrong side.

Sometimes the seal and serial number are printed on the reverse rather than the obverse. Although the process of printing currency has a lot of automation, there's still has been some necessary manual handling of the sheets of bills within the process. If sheets were dropped and picked up in the stack upside down, then the printing will be flipped on the bills.
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Gutter folds or butterfly folds

A $10 bill with a gutter fold error in the upper left.

If the note gets a fold in it during the printing process, part of the note's design will be offset from the other part. Gutter folds go from one side of the note to the other, and butterfly folds go from one side to a perpendicular side.

Miscut bills

Have you ever gotten a magazine in which you had to tear apart some of the pages because they weren't cut perfectly? Some notes come out that way. If so, there might be an extra flap on one corner of the bill.

Light or missing design

The reverse side of a $1 bill that had insufficient inking.

A bill with a completely missing second printing (which would have contained the portrait).

If the application of the front printing is poor, the seal and serial numbers will stand out more than normal. It's caused by interrupted ink flow to the plates, or light pressure in the intaglio process.

Mismatched series

The letter in the black seal and the letter preceding the upper right and lower left serial numbers should all be the same. However, sometimes they're not.

Mismatched serial numbers

A $1 bill with mismatched serial numbers. The one in the upper right is different than the one in the lower left.

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The serial numbers on the bills uniquely identify each bill. They are printed mechanically like just everything else about the bill. Since the serial number is printed twice on some bills, one serial number imprint may advance correctly, but not the other. This results in a mismatch if not caught.

There's a fair bit of interest in currency errors so check your wallet to see if you have some extra cash hiding in there!

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