"Off Center" Dollar Bill

Hello there everyone! I am not extremely familiar with paper money and all of the errors and rarities that one may encounter since I mostly collect coins. However, I have heard of "off-center" or "miscut" notes and I believe I have one.


I found this 2013 dollar bill while searching through some bills. I was curious: How off-center/miscut does a bill have to be in order to be worth keeping? Is this one dramatic enough to keep?

It kind of reminds me of misaligned dies on coins. Some slight misalignment is normal, but if dramatic enough it is a good find.

Thanks

 

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it is a misaligned/off center cut still nice and a keeper.

 

The notes that command higher than face value are ones that actually show parts of the next note, so your bill has NAV, no added value to most collectors. Spend it.

 

Your bill is within the BEP tolerance for printing. The BEP would not consider this misaligned or improper cutting.

This bill is considered miss cut.



Also, this can happen horizontally as well as vertically.

In order to have any added value, a miss cut printing typically must show some of the adjacent bill. The more the adjacent bill shows the greater the added value.

A miss cut bill will have the same amount of displacement on both sides.

Also, remember that the printing on the back of the bill is smaller than the printing on the front. This gives the appearance of more displacement on the back when it does not really exist.

A misaligned bill will usually show one side off center, or part of another bill, while the other side is properly centered.

 

As its only a dollar, agreed with above in terms of keeping it - this being said, it is within tolerances, and not substantial enough to have any value above face. Being circulated, only worth $1.

 

What Mountain Man said.

 

Hey! I was thinking about you when I was watching the Unabomb series on Netflix. LOL.

 

Couldn't anyone buy a sheet of dollar bills and cut then anyway they want and then say they have something rare

 

Yes, that has been many times.

 

Yeah, Ted was a neighbor, but that was before my time here. He used to hitch a ride with the mailman from Lincoln to Marysville and sleep on the floor of the local bar.

 

Unscrupulous people have cut bills from sheets and tried to pass them off as error notes. If you are buying one you should check the serial numbers against the BEP's list of serial numbers that were used for sale of sheets. If the "error" bill serial number matches the serial number that was sold in sheets pass up on purchasing the error bill.

You will find a lot of these fake error bills listed as "false cutting" on eBay.

 

i never knew a list would be generated of what was sold in sheets. When I did a tour at Forth Worth - the store was selling sheets - so employees at Forth Worth who pulls sheets to sell has to put down the serial numbers before selling them ? is there a link to this to these serial numbers - thanks Snowman

 

Yes - http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/uncut.html

 

Pretty awful centering, that’s worse then better in this case.

 

I held mine up to the light. If it's a genuine misaligned error note, then you'll see the misalignment instead of all white.

 

I held mine up to the light. If it's a genuine misaligned error note, then you'll see the misalignment instead of all white.

 

@Jersey magic man nailed it: the OP's note is only good for is spending. However, you might get a few "wows" over on Reddit where there's a # of "experts" who call anything an "error" & worth grading.

 

nothing special here, just not crazy enough…LOL , a Walmart spender

 

I have a 2013 off-centered $2 bill in very good condition, does anybody know what those are worth?