Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="NOS, post: 1397289, member: 2098"]Where's George draws a fine line about stamping notes. The admin doesn't sell stamps on his site and on the main site he uses crafty lingo such as "if you choose to mark your bills..." etc. The site admin will not publicly encourage the marking of currency. This is all to avoid unwanted interest from government officials. Many believe there is nothing to worry about from the government and that the site admins fear is unwarranted. The forum is a bit more relaxed in the discussion of marking currency. The site admin will clamp down on particular members if he feels a note has been overmarked but he gives no specific definition on what actually is overmarked. It is one of those things where it is left up to the discretion of the sites users on what is considered too marked or not. Yes, many tellers at banks put Where's George notes into their mutilation piles to be sent off and destroyed. Just because they get shipped off does not guarantee their destruction, though. The notes are first run through high-speed scanning units and are checked for fitness at various Federal Reserve Offices throughout the country. Notes that are stamped in red often make it back out without a problem as the scanning units don't "see" the color red. Notes that are stamped in black and especially blue most certainly never get reissued. It really just depends on the color and how marked up a note is.[/QUOTE]