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Coworker brought this note in today. Altered or real? I’m a coin guy.
DNADave
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My first thought is that this is altered. The reverse is very even colored.
Any help with what this is? Thank you.
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My first thought is that this is altered. The reverse is very even colored.
Any help with what this is? Thank you.
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Altered....without question.
100% agree !
Me thinks it was dipped in a solvent and nuked in a microwave. IMO. Peace Roy
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Yup, bleached, or otherwise chemically altered. But probably chemically, not sun altered. Sun will tend to fade the color ink. Since yellow and blue make green, it could be a solvent that removed the blue component of the green back, leaving it yellow.
Red seal $2 notes are sometimes seen with red seals altered to yellow and sold as errors, which they are not.
It also removed a bit of both the green and black ink on the face of this one-also a sign of alteration.
Could have been in clothing that went through the dry cleaning process - I remember my dad finding some similar dollar bills in a jacket he had dry cleaned.
Thank you all. That what I thought.
Altered!
Altered
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Bleach.