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New Member
Canada
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I was at a coin show a while back, when a dealer was offered some paper money for purchase. He opened the plastic bag it was in and smelled the bill. Apparently you can flatten creases out of bills, but it leaves an odor. Does anyone know what smell I should be looking for if buying bills? Thanks
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I know nothing about notes, but if he inhaled, it would'nt affect the bill. (?) Maybe he was doing a quick authentication check? I cant think of another smell like it. I smell my coins ALL the time. Admit it, you do to.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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fioti - I used to until I started roll searching. Then I had to start using a brillo pad to clean the gunk off my fingers. Now I don't want any of that stuff near my face.
New bills do have a particular smell. I think it might actually be the smell of the paper mixed with the ink. I work for a printing company. You can tell the difference between uncoated vs. coated paper by the smell. Throw ink on it and the smell changes. Now whether the smell of bills can be altered by some sort of flattening method, I don't know.
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Valued Member
United States
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I think we have to test it. Take a 1 dollar note and press it with a iron and see if it smells different after wards. But I do know that new notes do have a smell to them. I dont know if older ones would still have that smell.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I know a few dealers quite well, and I've never seen any of them smell notes.  This fellow must be smelling to see if they have been ironed out? |
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New Member
 Canada
20 Posts |
To add to my original post, the dealer was checking to see if the bill was "soaked" in a specific liquid. (Apparently done quite often until someone figured out it could be distinguished as being tampered with by a smell).
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Valued Member
Canada
311 Posts |
I have a small fire proof safe, which does not allow for ventilation, and I found that all my coins and bills acquired a smell. I tried to use a desicant to keep moisture down, but that did not work, even after a couple of years in another safe, the smell remains.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have heard of people starching notes to remove wrinkles and stiffen just like a dress shirt at the dry cleaners. It is possible that process could leave a tell-tale smell that he was trying to detect.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't believe I have ever heard of anyone ever smelling a bill and especially not a coin.....what the heck are you hoping to smell on the coin?
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New Member
Canada
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I have seen a dealer do that also and he told me that he could tell from the smell whether a bill had been ironed.
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Valued Member
United States
71 Posts |
maybe he just had a weird fetish?
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Valued Member
United States
458 Posts |
Only time I've seen or had to smell a note is when you are dealing with any kind of inking/underinking error. Besides smelling you can also determine this by touch if you've handled enough genuine and man made errors you can almost instantly feel the differences.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I smell my coins ALL the time. Admit it, you do to.
No.........I can honestly say that I have never sniffed my coins. They do how ever have a strange metallic taste to them. I wonder why? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I would be afraid I smelt something not so pleasant on the coin from the person that handled the coin before me, I would definitely never even think of putting these things in my mouth
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Valued Member
Canada
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I have had to stop using the little safe for storage of coins, sets and bills because the smell was so strong that you did not have to get your nose near the coins or sets to get a whiff of the odour.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The dealer was probably smelling the notes to see if he could smell bleach (or other cleaners). Just like coins, people try to "improve" the look of their banknotes and use household cleaning products to do it. Basically if the note has a funny smell to it (Like I said before; bleach.) then you know it has been cleaned. He was just checking the originality of the note. I have smelt my banknote's to make sure they have note been cleaned.  Edited by Canadian-Banknotes
12/30/2010 9:00 pm
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Posted 12/30/2010 1:21 pm
