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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 546842, member: 15062&quot;]There was a time when banks would send soiled paper money that they felt was worthy of reclamation back to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing where it would actually be washed, dried, ironed and then returned to circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>This 1910 article from the New York Times describes the process:</p><p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06E7DD1230E233A25755C2A9609C946196D6CF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06E7DD1230E233A25755C2A9609C946196D6CF" rel="nofollow">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06E7DD1230E233A25755C2A9609C946196D6CF</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s an excerpt from the August 1916 issue of the Numismatist describing the same process:</p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJUUAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA378&amp;lpg=RA1-PA378&amp;dq=1916+money+washington+wash+iron&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qDWMeFwjcp&amp;sig=bU6H0XDA1fNHawwOxCeHoIJJjgQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=nHvASY7zCOqvtwfHhp1Y&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ct=result" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJUUAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA378&amp;lpg=RA1-PA378&amp;dq=1916+money+washington+wash+iron&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qDWMeFwjcp&amp;sig=bU6H0XDA1fNHawwOxCeHoIJJjgQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=nHvASY7zCOqvtwfHhp1Y&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ct=result" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=qJUUAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA378&amp;lpg=RA1-PA378&amp;dq=1916+money+washington+wash+iron&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qDWMeFwjcp&amp;sig=bU6H0XDA1fNHawwOxCeHoIJJjgQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=nHvASY7zCOqvtwfHhp1Y&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ct=result</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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