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<p>[QUOTE="JBK, post: 381542, member: 1101"]The US should adopt the laws of North Korea, a brutal communist dictatorship? No thanks. The bill probabaly never got near a normal North Korean - they are too busy scrounging tree bark for their next meal. </p><p><br /></p><p>I actually save WG bills. They are collectable in their own right.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also stamp lots of stuff on dollar bills (not WG, though) and I also counterstamp coins. Obviously I don't mess with legitimate collectables. The ironic thing is, the coins I counterstamp will be worth more one day as "defaced" coins than they would be worth if they continued to circulate and got more worn. People assume that a coin or note would remain in mint or near mint conditon and would be worth keeping if it hadn't been "defaced". In reality, it would have continued to circulate and gotten heavily worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the star note that started this thread, if it hadn't been taken to the bank by the WG stamper, he would have spent it somewhere else, and within a few months it would have been on the way to the shredder anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JBK, post: 381542, member: 1101"]The US should adopt the laws of North Korea, a brutal communist dictatorship? No thanks. The bill probabaly never got near a normal North Korean - they are too busy scrounging tree bark for their next meal. I actually save WG bills. They are collectable in their own right. I also stamp lots of stuff on dollar bills (not WG, though) and I also counterstamp coins. Obviously I don't mess with legitimate collectables. The ironic thing is, the coins I counterstamp will be worth more one day as "defaced" coins than they would be worth if they continued to circulate and got more worn. People assume that a coin or note would remain in mint or near mint conditon and would be worth keeping if it hadn't been "defaced". In reality, it would have continued to circulate and gotten heavily worn. As for the star note that started this thread, if it hadn't been taken to the bank by the WG stamper, he would have spent it somewhere else, and within a few months it would have been on the way to the shredder anyway.[/QUOTE]
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