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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 331164, member: 11668&quot;]Arithmetic: With U.S.-style eight-digit serials, a radar comes up once in every 10,000 notes on average.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure where you got the 11,000 figure....&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Terminology: The Fed says a &quot;strap&quot; is 100 notes, a &quot;bundle&quot; is 1000 notes, and a &quot;brick&quot; is 4000 notes.&nbsp; In the old days, intact 4000-note bricks made it out into the banking system, wrapped in brown paper and bound with steel bands.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen anything above a 1000-note bundle reaching the market in years, though (which is probably why many collectors now use &quot;brick&quot; to refer to the 1000-note packages).&nbsp; There *was* a news story from Iraq a few years ago that pictured a whole 640,000-note forklift pallet of $100&#039;s; it&#039;s amazing how much space $64 million takes up!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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