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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 338363, member: 8247&quot;]OK, most bundles I get are uneventful.&nbsp; Either they are solid brand new bundles, or they are circulated with the usual 1976 UNC&#039;s sprinkled throughout, often in small bunches of consecutive serial numbers.&nbsp; I also average a couple stars out of the circulated bundles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this last bundle threw me for a loop.</p><p><br /></p><p>It contained over $250 of flat out mutilated currency.&nbsp; I&#039;m talking notes torn in half and taped back together.&nbsp; The bundle was definitely from the FRB with the straps dated 12/18/07.&nbsp; There was probably another $500 of what I would consider &quot;unfit&quot;.&nbsp; I pulled the mutilated to send back as such.&nbsp; I&#039;m always more forgiving on 1976 $2&#039;s and recirculate those as much as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The kicker though was coming across the note clearly stamped &quot;Mutilated&quot;.&nbsp; I attached a scan below.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing that some bank routed several hundred dollars of unfit/mutilated $2&#039;s to the Federal Reserve and the Feds just recirculated the entire bunch.&nbsp; Based on their published specifications for unfit currency, I always though they used optics to identify and remove unfit notes, but there is no way half of the notes I got would have passed such an inspection.&nbsp; Really baffling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also found one with a serial number that was just so close to being a really super cool number (scan below).&nbsp; I23457893A.&nbsp; I dream of getting the brand new bundle that starts with 23456 or 12345.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also found a birthday note (for someone that was born on March 41, 2003!!!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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