ok, so I have trouble saving bitcoin for the future so a while back I made an address on my core wallet and then dumped the private key and saved it on a piece of paper.

Now years later and I hand typed the private key into another wallet and it did import a wallet but its not the same address and the balance is 0.

I check again on a new version of the core wallet (not synced) and I dumped the private key for that address and again the private key that is dumped is not to the address with my coins.