# 0265 - T17 - CR 99A - PF-3 "TEN" Watermarked - Rarity 13
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A T17 with a TEN watermark and insanely difficult to find. I have been looking for over 25 years. One of the really hard things about spotting a TEN on the T17 is that the inking on the obverse side of the note shows through to the reverse. In places, that inking closely resembles one arm of a T and a lot of an E. I have made that mistake.
The condition census shows only three others to exist. The T17 PF-3 is one of the "Great Rarities" collection for that reason. As two of the others are cutout cancelled, this become # 2 on the census.
Fricke states in the census that the watermarks on the known notes are weak. That is definitely true for this note. It does not help that this note was placed on the wire mold then moved repeatedly. There are portions of the TEN watermark on two places other than the primary one. Both overlap the primary watermark and made it very difficult to decipher. Backlighting is not definitive due to the weak watermark and the overlap.
I copied a relatively bold TEN watermark from a T24 and digitally trimmed it just inside the letter borders. I then enlarged the image of each letter to approximate the size of the outer edge of the letter borders. The dark note attached shows my attempt at transparently overlaying each letter onto the note. The overlay may be off by 1/16" or so in places but it is close. As evidenced by the appearance of each letter, I got better at the process by the time I got to the "N". It took hours as that is not in my wheelhouse.
The condition census shows only three others to exist. The T17 PF-3 is one of the "Great Rarities" collection for that reason. As two of the others are cutout cancelled, this become # 2 on the census.
Fricke states in the census that the watermarks on the known notes are weak. That is definitely true for this note. It does not help that this note was placed on the wire mold then moved repeatedly. There are portions of the TEN watermark on two places other than the primary one. Both overlap the primary watermark and made it very difficult to decipher. Backlighting is not definitive due to the weak watermark and the overlap.
I copied a relatively bold TEN watermark from a T24 and digitally trimmed it just inside the letter borders. I then enlarged the image of each letter to approximate the size of the outer edge of the letter borders. The dark note attached shows my attempt at transparently overlaying each letter onto the note. The overlay may be off by 1/16" or so in places but it is close. As evidenced by the appearance of each letter, I got better at the process by the time I got to the "N". It took hours as that is not in my wheelhouse.
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