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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 3192979, member: 2098&quot;]I would say you have quite likely encountered them before but just hadn&#039;t noticed them. I recently found the two &quot;wilds&quot; in the attached picture. The one with the blue URL stamp came from a cash dispenser at a local casino; the other was found in a strap of ones from a bank. As Oldhoopster has mentioned, it is not illegal to write on U.S. currency or to stamp them so long as one doesn&#039;t have the &quot;intention&quot; of rendering them unfit for use.[ATTACH=full]824699[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, to answer your question about where they are found most frequently, I will say from my experience 10 years ago I would find an average of two wilds in a $100 strap of ones back East but in the West I would find one out of an average of every thousand notes searched. I never understood why but presumed there were simply more Where&#039;s George participants back East than there are in places like California.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward to today and there has been a noticeable decline of Where&#039;s George notes found across the board from coast to coast over the past few years. These days I personally find a wild out of every 3-5000 $1 notes that I go through. A lot of speculation has occurred as to why this is the case but the theory that has the most traction, and the one that I find to be the most credible, is that the government has updated their fitness-scanning equipment so stamped/marked bills are no longer reissued like they used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, it is common for Where&#039;s George participants to stamp their notes in the margins (especially in red) with the idea being the scanning equipment won&#039;t see the stamps and issue them back into circulation. My suspicion is that the updated equipment now checks the margins (and can now detect the color red) along with the rest of the note and will reject these notes for circulation as well. I base this on the fact that I can go through whole thousand note bricks of FRB-filtered notes and I will hardly ever find a note with any kind of writing or stamps on them like I used to in the past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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