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MORE CHOPMARKS ON MODERN U.S. PAPER MONEYPhil Iversen writes: Regarding the article on “Chopmarks on Paper Currency” in the Feb. 17th issue I, too, have collected a number of these notes over the years. You mostly find them on the larger size notes ($50 or $100) bills usually with either symbols or even letters, but I also have a few on $1 bills too. I have pulled of circulation a number of $1, $5 & $20 notes with the “Where’s George” stamp plus another dozen or so with message such as “I Love You,” dates or names on them. Always fun to watch out for and collect!
New subscriber Chip Howell forwarded the above image of a $20 bill with an interesting stamp in Arabic. He provided the translation below.
-Editor
1st line, proper name: Lu'ay Naafi'
While Arabic reads right-to-left, their numbers read left-to-right, like ours. Not sure why! I also don't know what the "SM" means, but if I learn in the meantime, I'll pass that along as well. Notice that just below the stamp, you can see serial number bleed-through from the front.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CHOPMARKS ON MODERN U.S. PAPER MONEY
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n07a21.html)
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