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Have New Question About An Old Post...$20 Binary Bill

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 Posted 01/28/2021  10:33 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add NaNa7 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Back in December I posted about a $20 binary bill. For argument sake its a $20 2 digit serial number bill since binary is actually 1's and 0's.

Anyways I asked about all the raised lines in the bill. They do not look like creases or folds. Bill is also deeply embossed. I was basically told the bill had been origami(ed). So I put it in folder and forgot about it.

Link to old post is below.

Well today I was going through some bills I had and I came across a $20 bill that looked familiar. I checked it with the one I have put up and it has the same deep embossing and raised lines(long, short, N to S, E to W and diagonal). Some lines even match up on both bills. I then checked date and other markings and both bills are 2013, L12, Begin with ML, and end with M. Only difference is one is FW C 104 and the other is FW D 123.

Is this just a coincidence? I am just trying to figure out how and why these bills are like this.

http://goccf.com/t/388754&SearchTerms=NaNa7

In pictures the bills look like they have been wadded up into a ball but that's not what they really look like. The lines I am asking about make the bills look like that for some reason.


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 Posted 01/29/2021  03:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SteveInTampa to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm sorry @NaNa7, I just don't see it or maybe, don't understand. They both appear as well worn $20 notes. And, as far as your take on embossing, I have serious doubts whether either note has any original embossing remaining. For illustrative purposes, this is embossing.

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 Posted 01/29/2021  06:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add PNWType to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I gotta say they look like the bills have been folded to me too.

Also you were correct to call it a 'binary' as it has two numbers, just as a 'trinary' has 3, a 'quaternary' has 4, and so on.

A 'true binary' is all 0s and 1s because then it matches both the linguistic and computing definitions of binary.
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 Posted 01/29/2021  09:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
"Binary" simply means a set of two things, like binary stars.
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Understand you say "that's not what they really look like" so I don't want to dismiss what you are saying. Of course via this online forum we can only comment on what we see in the pictures. To me, they look like regular folds/wrinkles. I'm not really seeing them line up side-by-side either. You would expect folds to generally line up at the quartiles and terciles/thirds since that's where they typically get folded. If you really see something there, maybe try taking the photo from a different angle or under different lighting. As-is, I don't think we'll be able to spot anything special.
I also believe that embossing naturally fades as the bill is used, handled, pulled in/out of wallets. If you took the bill @SteveinTampa posted and used it in commerce to the extent these $20 have been used, it is unlikely you would find much of that embossing left.
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