Mauritius 10 Rupees P# 35: Green or orange?

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Hi All

I have been collecting coins for many years but have only been collecting banknotes for a few weeks. Therefore I'm not very knowledgable when it comes to banknotes, and I'd appreciate some advice about this note:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note206483.html

The catalogue says that there are two varieties: "orange UV latent printing" and "green UV latent printing". Therefore, I went out and bought a UV torch of the type used to look for scorpions. When I look at the note using this UV light, here is what I see:



I am confused because, to me, it looks like it fluoresces white. I have four of these in various conditions and all of them look the same under UV.

Is there anyone here who has experience with this note who can give me some guidance? Do I perhaps need to use a different kind of light? And I looking at the correct feature of the note? Can anyone help me (perhaps with sample images) tell the difference between P# 35a (orange UV latent printing) and P# 35b (green UV latent printing)?

I'd be really grateful for any advice you may have. :-)

Andrew
Splitting a note on the grounds of UV ink sounds like a strange decision to me. Depending on what wavelength your lightbulb emitts the excitement of the ink is better or worse. HERE is a thread from some time ago.
If you account all the stray blue/violet light I would say this can be counted as green if it would be orange you would see orange.
Quote: "Idolenz"​Splitting a note on the grounds of UV ink sounds like a strange decision to me. Depending on what wavelength your lightbulb emitts the excitement of the ink is better or worse. HERE is a thread from some time ago.
​If you account all the stray blue/violet light I would say this can be counted as green if it would be orange you would see orange.
​Thank you so much for the advice!
Your image looks orange to my eye.
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This is with much of the blue straylight removed looks more like neon yellow/green to me.

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