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Currency Errors

Double denominations; improperly aligned, inverted backs; obstructions between the printing cylinder and paper; overprints of seals; and inverted, misaligned and missing serial numbers are just a few of the errors seen on paper money.

The series 1969 dollar bills were the first to use a simplified Treasury seal, with the wording in English instead of Latin. Below the FRB seal (to the left of George Washington) is the signature of the Treasurer of the United States, and below the USDT Seal (right side) is the Secretary of the Treasury's signature.

The $5 note features a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on the front of the note. The vignette on the back of the note changed in 1929 to feature the Lincoln Memorial.

The definition of unfit currency, from the Federal Reserve System's Cash Product Office, is a “note that is not suitable for further circulation because of its physical condition” due to being: torn. worn. limp.

U.S. Treasurer Chief Lynn Malerba and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen now have their signatures featured on the Series 2021 $1 and $5 bills. Janet Yellen is the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, while Chief Lynn Malerba is the first Native American to serve as the U.S. Treasurer.

Heavily worn 1957 $1 bills, such as those that are rag-like in appearance, are discolored, and/or have handwriting are generally worth only face value.

There were over 63 million 1963 five dollar red seal legal tender notes printed. Today you can buy a circulated 1963 $5 for around six dollars. Uncirculated 1963 five dollar red seals trade for around $15.

Most $2 bills in circulation are worth exactly that: $2. And even though you don't see a lot of $2 bills in everyday life, they are still being printed. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) planned to print up to 204 million $2 bills in 2022, CNN reported.

It all has to do with their unique serial numbers. According to GOBankingRates, $5 bills with serials such as "G88888888A” or "B55555555C" could be worth thousands due to them carrying a "solid" serial number — meaning all digits in the serial are identical.

With that, you could conclude that yes it is, in fact, illegal to "mutilate, cut, deface, disfigure, or perforate, or unite or cement together" any bank bill, draft, note or evidence of debt by a national or federal entity.

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18 U.S. Code section 331: This statute addresses the mutilation, diminution, or falsification of U.S. coins. You can be charged with on offense for fraudulently defacing coins, mutilating coins, altering coins, diminishing them, impairing them, scaling them, or lightening them.

Most people are familiar with the illegal practice of printing counterfeit money, but that isn't the only way to devalue U.S. currency. Under Title 18 U.S. Code 331, it's a federal crime to fraudulently alter, mutilate, or falsify coins in the United States.

What is the printing error? The two sets of $1 bills show duplicate serial numbers, meaning that two individual $1 bills were printed with the exact same serial number. Each dollar bill should have its own, unique serial number. Individually, the misprinted $1 bills aren't worth much.

It's important to note that the misprint doesn't make these $1 bills unusable, and they're probably not worth more than a dollar on their own. However, if you manage to find a matching pair, you could earn thousands from collectors.

If you've got a few dollar bills in your wallet, you might want to inspect the greenbacks before you spend them. Some U.S. coin and currency collectors are reportedly willing to pay thousands of dollars for rare $1 bills that have a certain printing error made by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.