Has anyone noticed the Drug dealers marks on back of $100 bills??
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I recently and far too briefly had a stack of $100 bills when a friend of mine pointed out that on the backs of many there were various small stamps and initials.
Some had several stamps/initials.
He explained that the major drug dealers have a problem with their customers using counterfeit $100s so they have their street dealers mark all the $100s they accept. Then when the street dealers turn their proceeds in to Mr. Big if any turn out to be counterfiet then Mr. Big will know which street dealer he needs to charge them back against.
Anyone else ever noticed these marks on the back of $100s and can they confirm this story??
Some had several stamps/initials.
He explained that the major drug dealers have a problem with their customers using counterfeit $100s so they have their street dealers mark all the $100s they accept. Then when the street dealers turn their proceeds in to Mr. Big if any turn out to be counterfiet then Mr. Big will know which street dealer he needs to charge them back against.
Anyone else ever noticed these marks on the back of $100s and can they confirm this story??
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I actually had never heard the DD theory, but had come up with the authentication theory on my own, not having learned of it elsewhere.
I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.
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TD
<< <i>Then when the street dealers turn their proceeds in to Mr. Big if any turn out to be counterfiet then Mr. Big will know which street dealer he needs to charge them back against. >>
Wouldn't it be just as plausible to guess that the marks come from waitresses at a large nightclub?
Or any other equally reasonable explanation?
Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
Drug dealers do not mark their bills. In fact, they insist the bills be unmarked. The last thing they want is a road map of their operation in circulation. I think you guys give them to much credit. Or, watch way too much tv.
<< <i>A lot of overseas banks put their rubber stamp "chop mark" on $100's that have been checked for authenticity and have passed the test.
TD >>
hmmm? how hard would it be to counterfeit the "chop mark rubber stamp"?
Tyler
My favorite drug-crime show, HBO's The Wire, dealt with the issue early on. One day two junkies got away with paying with coffee-stained, xeroxed bills. After the street dealers got chastised and got wise, they looked at the cash closely and beat down the junkies when they tried it again a few days later. Sounds like real life to me.
If the waitress don't like GWs she's SOL.
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When I was in jr high school, "some kids I knew" used to stamp GW on the dollar bill with a MrT stamp.
In shop class, "they" would smash a penny in a vice till it bent in half. "They" would then place a quarter in the fold and continue to squish the penny until it was FIRMLY locked onto the quarter.
"They" would then pay for their $1.25 lunch with a MrT bill and a 26cent piece and tell the lunch lady to keep the change.
The look on the cashier's face was priceless as they tried to remove the penny from the quarter - or so I heard !!
on the back...........it's mine.
Camelot
many are certainly akin to chop marks with respect to authenticity, others are related to the grafitti and counterstamping that's been occurring on money for, well 3000 years or so, isn't it?
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
<< <i>If you ever find a jelly donut with a mark
on the back...........it's mine.
A true classic...
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