diff --git a/Lib/test/test_grammar.py b/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
index ebcd98a0a37776..b0e0ca1585ea86 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
@@ -140,6 +140,26 @@ def test_bad_numerical_literals(self):
         check("1e2_", "invalid decimal literal")
         check("1e+", "invalid decimal literal")
 
+    def test_end_of_numerical_literals_offset(self):
+        # gh-149277: verify the error caret points at the first invalid
+        # character, not the last valid digit.
+        cases = [
+            ("0xfg", 4),
+            ("0x9g", 4),
+            ("0b1z", 4),
+            ("0o7q", 4),
+            ("9spam", 2),
+            ("0xfspam", 4),
+            ("1.0x", 4),
+            ("1e3w", 4),
+            ("1jz", 3),
+        ]
+        for source, expected_offset in cases:
+            with self.subTest(source=source):
+                with self.assertRaises(SyntaxError) as cm:
+                    compile(source, "<test>", "eval")
+                self.assertEqual(cm.exception.offset, expected_offset)
+
     def test_end_of_numerical_literals(self):
         def check(test, error=False):
             with self.subTest(expr=test):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-05-06-18-16-33.gh-issue-149277.4uVfSK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-05-06-18-16-33.gh-issue-149277.4uVfSK.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0c7e4fbba02f25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-05-06-18-16-33.gh-issue-149277.4uVfSK.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix the :exc:`SyntaxError` caret position for invalid numeric literals to
+point at the first invalid character instead of the last valid one.
diff --git a/Parser/lexer/lexer.c b/Parser/lexer/lexer.c
index 7f25afec302c22..dad8d800617b12 100644
--- a/Parser/lexer/lexer.c
+++ b/Parser/lexer/lexer.c
@@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ verify_end_of_number(struct tok_state *tok, int c, const char *kind) {
     }
     else /* In future releases, only error will remain. */
     if (c < 128 && is_potential_identifier_char(c)) {
-        tok_backup(tok, c);
         _PyTokenizer_syntaxerror(tok, "invalid %s literal", kind);
         return 0;
     }