Colour versions

N#288114

For the 10 Penni there are two year lines, distinguishing between grey and brown print versions. 

Should a similar distinction be made here? It doesn't come out too well on below pictures, but in person - and from the auction record pictures - there is quite a difference. 

I absolutely abhor shade variants like off-white vs. "dark" white paper or stuff like this here etc. (good luck if you don't own a completely UNC perfectly preserved note 😅). Thankfully banknotes are not my main collection field. 

Back to the topic … can you proof that these are regular occurrences or is one note just sun bleached?

P.S. are you using a light source that is lower then 5000K to 5600K? Always suboptimal in threads about color variants and non neutral light gets used without a reference to white balance. If we want to use the pictures in the comments.

53th0s

N#288114

Should a similar distinction be made here?

I think not. Variation in the ink in these high volume low denomination notes is common and, it would appear, random. Such variation in ink shades is also common in Polish notgeld, and not considered to be significantly noteworthy.

In that case I would vote to also remove the distinction for the 10 Penni.

I will look into local catalogues, hav not gotten to this set yet … but I seem to remember they also mention different shades.

I do however agree that this kind of shadedifference are very difficult to document and even more difficult to figure out the type on used notes. So if possible I'll get rid of those distinctions.