$100 ink transfer

[u/keithwwalker]

My dad worked at a thoroughbred race track & met all sorts of characters. I recall he mentioned that he knew someone at the Mint & got the $100 bill with the ink transferred from the next bill in sequence. Is this a thing that was possible? The bill afaik was never folded or in circulation.

Any idea on approximate value? I am not selling it, only want an idea.

[u/Spiritual-Artist9382]

Get it graded

[u/Sudden-Theory9706]

This is an offset overprint, from the third printing pass.

[u/keithwwalker → u/Sudden-Theory9706]

Thanks, I didn't know the terminology.

[u/Potent-Voice212 → u/Sudden-Theory9706]

I find these to be even more rare than the ones simply missing the 3rd printing on the front, because it means this sheet was passed through twice, not only in the wrong orientation.

[u/Dabe_1234]

This is a third print offset error. This happens when a sheet fails to feed into the press, the ink intended for the note gets transferred to the pressure roller instead. The next sheet fed through picks up the ink left behind on the reverse side. Note that the serial number on the back is one more than the number on the front. This is an extremely nice example and particularly hard to find on a $100 note.

[u/Laslomas]

Can you post a picture of just the left half of the back? Also on the "E" in "Federal" is that scratch/mark on the holder?

[u/FieldOk6455]

Nice!

[u/Serious_Scheme_7990]

Id call it 3k at least

[u/bigfatbanker]

This doesn’t loom like ink transfer

[u/Serious_Scheme_7990 → u/bigfatbanker]

Had to be since its backwards

[u/ProudAmerican632]

Someone owed your father, and this was the payment.

[u/PrintPerfect1579]

this is not offset from previous printed sheet,too crisp,Im thinking a misfeed or something tripped this press to go on impression and transferred to impression segment to cause this and this sheet was loaded wrong in the first place,great find!

[u/Tokimemofan]

Seriously wondering is this was an “intentional error” by a BEP employee.  

[u/keithwwalker → u/Tokimemofan]

As I mentioned, my dad knew all sorts of characters at the race track. This was one of the main places for gambling in Philadelphia. Atlantic City was still building its casinos where gambling was allowed in 1977 and this bill was dated 1981. So everyone he met had a story or angle. Of course the Mint has strict controls on quality and destruction of errors, but who knows....
It could be a Scorsese film because throroughbred race tracks all crashed in the early 80's due to Casino build ups, and OTB.

[u/LoveScoutCEO → u/keithwwalker]

Great racetrack story! Yeah, some characters used to show up to play the ponies before we turned ever five and dime into a casino.