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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 8, February 23, 2014, Article 8

MORE CHOPMARKS ON MODERN U.S. PAPER MONEY

Phil 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!

$20 bill with Arabic stamp

New subscriber Chip Howell forwarded the above image of a $20 bill with an interesting stamp in Arabic. He provided the translation below. -Editor

$20 bill with Arabic stamp The text of the stamp, as best I can distinguish smudged blue ink from green ink, is...

1st line, proper name: Lu'ay Naafi'
2nd line, address: Tripoli [Lebanon] - 'Azmi Street
3rd line, license: Commercial registration number 2 0 - 2 6 6 7

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)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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