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Canada
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Wondering if this is a radar note or called something else. Ladder note perhaps? I forget what they are called. I received this from my bank machine today and its very circulated, but I noticed its number right away:
Jenkins Carney $20 it looks like:
ARL8466648
Thanks!
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Valued Member
Israel
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Valued Member
United States
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Nice radar find! Too bad it's not uncirculated though.
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 Canada
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Nice. Thanks for answering. The note says it's 2004 issue but printed in 2008, so it's only been circulating a couple of years. A bit wrinkled (not bad) has a few very tiny tears on the edges and a fold crease plus a bit of expected dirt or staining. Do collectors ever clean and press their special notes? Just wondering. I know paper can be restored but this is money and maybe thats an issue as its legal currency? My scanner, as mentioned, is non functional, but there are rules/laws against photocopying paper money even just to show you/people, aren't there? But then how does that work with people showing paper money on ebay and such places then? I'd like to know the rules so I don't go breaking them. I know I do tend to check my bills for radar notes or one digit notes etc. Shame to have to spend them as they don't cross my palms very often at all. In fact thats the second one I've noticed in 5 years! Edited by Dottir
09/23/2010 03:47 am
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Canada
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Scanners can't really pick up the tiny details on Canadian notes. And printers just smudge them. I think if you label SPECIMEN or VOID over top of the note it's allowed (don't quote me).
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thanks Libertad. I don't think I'll be posting images until I'm clear on the rules. I'll have to find out again.
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Valued Member
Israel
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thanks a lot for that link. I'll check it out right now ;)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Very interesting. I have vague memories of having visited that site for info a long time ago, so its good to have the link again to refresh what I read. I guarantee you that after reading that page plus the page for collectors, I will NOT be showing you all a pic of my radar note  The info all sounds very reasonable and common sense to me. Protecting the images from criminal counterfeiters, as well as all the copy right stuff. It sounds like they've met halfway and made collecting possible plus they benefit, get to create and sell collectible coins and money for a profit, a giving back and forth working relationship with genuine collectors so we all get some of what we want? Anyways, the rules just seem common sense to me. |
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Canada
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FYI, my $20 radar note was sent back into circulation yesterday :( I can't hang onto those bigger bills for long so had to release it back into the wild. I hope someone catches it for their own collection. It IS fun to think of some collector getting a charge from "discovering" it though.
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Canada
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i would have gladly takrn it off your hands. you also have an auction page in your profile. someone would have wanted it. you didnt release it anywhere near edmonton, did you?
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Canada
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$20 is just too much for my little monthly budget to do without it for long while waiting for the snail mail trade to happen. I released it in the lower SE corner of BC. Who knows where it will travel. People come and go through this town as a main highway route all the time so chances are very good that its long gone from the community.
I hope next time I come into a radar note that I can quickly trade it to someone who wants it. Snailmail takes SO long , too long for my needs!
That was only the 2nd radar note I've ever had cross my palm since I learned certain kinds of notes numbers were collectibles, so they don't come along often I assume. At least not to me and my small cash flow/go :D Next time I have one I'll let folks know though and maybe ....
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India
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Can someone tell me what this radar number,cigar number etc.. are and how they are designated?
Thanks
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Thailand
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drnsreedhar
The number of digits in a serial number can vary country to country (I see India has 6 - after the series prefix)but basically:
A radar number is a palindrome. It's the same backwards as forwards eg. 123321 or 988889.
A solid number just has one digit eg. 666666.
A repeater would have 2 or more digits that repeat eg. 121212 or 246246.
A ladder would have a series (forwards or backwards) eg. 123456.
If any of the above consist only of two numbers then it would be a binary eg.the 121212 is a binary repeater or 990099 would be a binary radar.
I hope I've got the terminology and examples right.
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08/15/2011 11:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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Examples: Radar  (My personal favourite) a binary radar  |
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India
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I got that concept exactly right. You are sharp on the examples.Thanks a lot.
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