The announcement I made in the April 2021 issue of the Bank Note Reporter about a $5 Series of 1902 plain back from The First National Bank of Sausalito with Sausalito misspelled Saucalito in the tombstone turned out to be fiction.
This was not a Bureau of Engraving and Printing mistake, but rather a mistake made by a note doctor who spliced in a C over a damaged S.
The note caused a great deal of excitement, especially among people who knew that early spelling variants of Sausalito used a C. More on that interesting story a bit later.
I looked forward to writing a follow-up article laying out the serial numbers of the affected errors along with dates of deliveries of those notes from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Comptroller of the Currency, and then the dates when the errors were shipped to the bank. To do this required access to the National Currency and Bond Ledgers in the National Archives, but the Archives were closed
