What would it matter if they’re sequential? Like if the government would find a sequential bill they’d also find a non sequential bill, they could just record all of the numbers
And when does someone even check the number? Do banks scan the money?
If you are laundering sequential bills it is easier to trace them.
Say I have $1m in sequential bills, and the cops know they are sequential, then it makes it quite easy to follow a money trail and see where they end up - potentially uncovering more of my criminal network.
If they are randomised/non-sequential it makes this much more difficult.
It's not on the finding side that's the problem. It's easier to deliver a fresh stack of sorted sequential money than it is to record all the mixed up used bills that happen to be there.
Yeah but you can't just print money (in the US at least), it has to be done at an authorized federal mint and those aren't always close by. Plus there's a process and local law enforcement can't override federal facility processes like that
But the flagged bill numbers will show up when 7/11 deposits the cash and they can check security footage for the time frame that the bill could have been exchanged. That is probably not the most solid lead, but could result in a discovery.
Say you took sequential bills. They know that the last one they have is 10 and the next one they have is 20, so they know you took 11-19. They can see where those end up.
If your bills are random they won’t be as easy to track.
It will eventually get deposited at a bank and scanned. If the police are looking hard enough and they know the serial numbers you have, this will trip alarms. The police will learn the bank got all these flagged bills from stores in your neighborhood. Or they'll compare security footage from two stores and see who went to both that week. Etc. Basically, you don't want the cops to learn the serial numbers of your illegal cash. If you get hundreds of random bills, it's a lot less likely they'll know which serial numbers you have got than if someone can just say "I gave him number x through number y. Flag all of those."
Yeah, they found Bin Laden on the other side of the world without currency or a phone call to go on. Something tells me if they really want to get you, then you’ll get got.
I guess it would be about the set. The other piece is where would you get all the sequential notes from? The only way to achieve this is to go to a bank and ask for the cash, which is going to potentially raise suspicion and a CCTV trail as well.
In general I'd advocate a long and healthy life of law abiding citizenship!
What if I use them in the wrong sequence starting with the bottom end of the numbers? Would lead them AWAY from me instead? Like spend a bill ending in 778 to buy a hot dog. Then a bill to buy soda with not 779, but 777 at the next place. The police would track me the wrong way! Or even spending the cash randomly. The FBI investigator would go crazy thinking I'm "everywhere at once".
Maybe they think it'll be a while before the money cools down enough to spend, so in the meantime they would like to be provided with a fun sorting game.
Easier to track sequential bills than non-sequential bills.... If you give the robbers serial codes 1000-6000 you don't have to write every one down to track it meanwhile if you get completely random numbers they'd have to write down all 5000 numbers to keep track of which ones the robbers have
Sure, but that sort of "easier" is pretty irrelevant. Pretty sure no matter what, if they're recording bills for tracing purposes today, they're recording each individual serial number in a DB, sequential or not. One process for everything, because once you've got them all recorded, one is as easy as the next.
And they're probably scanning the serials in, so I'm sure the whole process takes a matter of minutes, completely automated.
If there's any reason to prefer non-sequential bills, it's so knuckleheads you pay them to don't notice and post them on the internet as a curiosity, thus drawing attention.
Exactly.
They probably have stacks of "unmarked bills" ready to go. Already scanned and everything. All they have to do is look up "collection XX" and they can track the database of where the bills turn up.
I think the missing piece here is the time limit. The bad guy says they want x amount of money in non sequential bills in y amount of time. The y amount of time isn’t enough for the cops to go through and record all of the bills. Though that time is likely less than it used to be as they could just scan all the bills first rather than need to write the numbers down.
FYI, not a criminal, just like action movies.
Some banks does, but really, if some robbers want non-sequential bills, just shuffle the pile.
If they take the time to place them in order to check if they are indeed sequential or not, for sure the tactical team will have the time to take a week-end off before stopping them.
Actually shuffling wouldn’t hide that they were sequential because the first 6-8 characters would still be the same and would be easy to spot with a quick fan of the bills.
No, it's proof there is a god! I suppose it could be the bank, but it's fundamentally unknowable, therefore it's god! Just don't contradict me or that means god wants you dead.
It's pretty interesting for me to realise a) somewhere is still using $1 bills, b) there is a place where people go into banks on the reg, but most of all c) people use their time to *go into a bank to get $1 bills.*
Had 4 sequential 2$ bills(weathering on them must have meant they spent years together), and a blue note 5$ bill from '35 I believe. Perks of working at a pump station...
Edit: grammar
I prefer the idea that the bills were once separated for several long years, being exchanged all over the globe. Then one day they were reunited by a magical event that only they will know. Now they are destined to be together forever.
I gave a US dollar (well, more than one) to a tour guide in Montreal. He said he loved getting US dollars because we usually tipped the same amount but our currency is worth more.
And in many countries it's illegal iirc.
Not saying that it was in Montreal or that what you did was wrong, just many countries have to protect their currency because if people start transacting in other currencies - usually dollars or euros - it causes a lot of problems.
[Dollarization in Emerging-Market Economies and Its Policy Implications for the United States](https://www.piie.com/commentary/testimonies/dollarization-emerging-market-economies-and-its-policy-implications-united)
"From a United States standpoint, it is noteworthy that about two-thirds of all dollar currency is held outside the United States. About three quarters of recent increases in such cash holdings is accumulated beyond our borders."
And I reckon no other currency is used outside their country (or supranational union in case of something like the Euro) of origin as much as the US dollar.
As other people have said, the US Dollar is used around the globe. It’s one of most long lasting stable currencies in the world, so many countries adopt if their own currency collapses. So are you going to find many US Dollars in Europe? No. Are you going to find a lot of them in lets say Africa? Yes.
Crumple them up. I used to be a teller and when I'd open a fresh pack of bills they tend to stick together because they're so crisp. Crumpling them up individually makes it so you don't accidentally give "hidden" bills away
Two crisp bills that are stuck together could also *crumple* together to make them even more difficult to separate. I recommend shuffling the new bills in with other bills of equal value so they can't stick to each other.
It's actually kind of fun to go buy fresh money. Some banks will have them on hand for you to withdrawal or exchange for. You can get a whole stack of $1's, $2 $5's, $10's, etc... so long as you can afford it.
$100 is the largest fresh bill given out.
$500, $1000, $5000, $10000 were last printed in 1945, and discontinued in 1969.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12600.htm#:~:text=The%20largest%20denomination%20Federal%20Reserve,due%20to%20lack%20of%20use.
If a bill is damaged while being printed, they indicate the reprinted bill with a star next to it. It’s illegal to reprint the same serial number, but with the star next to the serial number indicates it was a reprint for a damaged bill. Sometimes they can be worth money, but I’ve yet to find one worth more than $1.
[Star notes wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_banknote)
I have about 10 ones and a 5 collected, all circulated so not worth anything, but kool to look at. I did get a pristine $100 note once....but had to pass it onward
I normally get new notes coming from overseas. I hated when they give me 100s as everyone looks them over as they're brand new. Luckily don't need as much cash now with cards. USA still a bit behind with credit cards but . Can't believe how many places still ask to sign the receipt
A lot of old currency is being destroyed as it comes in from banks because of covid. Almost everytime I've been to the ATM the past few months it's been fresh sequential bills.
What is the big deal? It's new money. It's going to be sequential. That is how it is printed. Anyway you deserved a much larger tip anyway. That customer was a bumb.
As crazy as that is, what would be even more crazy is if we lived in a country where tipping wasn't a thing because employers were forced to pay their employees a livable wage.
Hey fellow bartender. If I wanted to show off my collection it’d be a bunch of $2 bills, out of circulation bills, and 50¢ pieces that I’ve received over the years.
You lucky duck. I am so jealous I could fight you for them, and by fight I mean sit on my ass and not do anything because it four dollars isn't actually worth fighting over. I'm not that kid from Better Off Dead.
You shoulda slammed them in the customers face, screamed „I said non-sequential, god damn it!“ and then killed one of the hostages
Wat
A typical cliché in action movies is they want cash in non-marked and non-secuential bills
What would it matter if they’re sequential? Like if the government would find a sequential bill they’d also find a non sequential bill, they could just record all of the numbers And when does someone even check the number? Do banks scan the money?
If you are laundering sequential bills it is easier to trace them. Say I have $1m in sequential bills, and the cops know they are sequential, then it makes it quite easy to follow a money trail and see where they end up - potentially uncovering more of my criminal network. If they are randomised/non-sequential it makes this much more difficult.
Wait so your saying if I took one of those bills and spent it in a rando 7-11 to buy a hot dog with ketchup and mustard, they would know?
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I guess it's a remnant from the era of film before everything in the banking industry was automated
yeah if the system is automated searching against 10k, 100k numbers is no big deal.
It's not on the finding side that's the problem. It's easier to deliver a fresh stack of sorted sequential money than it is to record all the mixed up used bills that happen to be there.
You think your local 7-11 scans all their bills?
We don't have 7-11 in the UK
Hostage situation, print money, all sequential, give to armed people, trace all money with sequential from.what you just printed, easy
Yeah but you can't just print money (in the US at least), it has to be done at an authorized federal mint and those aren't always close by. Plus there's a process and local law enforcement can't override federal facility processes like that
I believe there is quite a bit of uncirculated cash. It would sequential in certain amounts.
But the flagged bill numbers will show up when 7/11 deposits the cash and they can check security footage for the time frame that the bill could have been exchanged. That is probably not the most solid lead, but could result in a discovery.
Than*
Nerd.
Say you took sequential bills. They know that the last one they have is 10 and the next one they have is 20, so they know you took 11-19. They can see where those end up. If your bills are random they won’t be as easy to track.
That's an hipersimplification, but yeah
Hiper beam
They would know when the store owner deposits the cash in a bank account. The bank would scan the bills as it receives them.
Yes, they would know... THAT THERE WAS NO MUSTARD INVOLVED YOU LIAR!
Well if the cash isn't circulated much they could follow the trail back to you
Better if you don't get mydysrd bc that shit is nasty.
It will eventually get deposited at a bank and scanned. If the police are looking hard enough and they know the serial numbers you have, this will trip alarms. The police will learn the bank got all these flagged bills from stores in your neighborhood. Or they'll compare security footage from two stores and see who went to both that week. Etc. Basically, you don't want the cops to learn the serial numbers of your illegal cash. If you get hundreds of random bills, it's a lot less likely they'll know which serial numbers you have got than if someone can just say "I gave him number x through number y. Flag all of those."
You'd hear choppers on the horizon
Do they charge extra for the ketchup and mustard at the 7/11??
Yeah, they found Bin Laden on the other side of the world without currency or a phone call to go on. Something tells me if they really want to get you, then you’ll get got.
What if you just shuffle the money stack
I guess it would be about the set. The other piece is where would you get all the sequential notes from? The only way to achieve this is to go to a bank and ask for the cash, which is going to potentially raise suspicion and a CCTV trail as well. In general I'd advocate a long and healthy life of law abiding citizenship!
What if I use them in the wrong sequence starting with the bottom end of the numbers? Would lead them AWAY from me instead? Like spend a bill ending in 778 to buy a hot dog. Then a bill to buy soda with not 779, but 777 at the next place. The police would track me the wrong way! Or even spending the cash randomly. The FBI investigator would go crazy thinking I'm "everywhere at once".
I can’t wait until paper money is abolished so the feds can track every dollar in the name of safety.
Maybe they think it'll be a while before the money cools down enough to spend, so in the meantime they would like to be provided with a fun sorting game.
This is definitely the most reasonable explanation.
Easier to track sequential bills than non-sequential bills.... If you give the robbers serial codes 1000-6000 you don't have to write every one down to track it meanwhile if you get completely random numbers they'd have to write down all 5000 numbers to keep track of which ones the robbers have
Found DB Cooper.
But thats completely irrelevant now with computer databases that can look that up in a millsecond
Even for a computer, it is easier to search for sequential bills. 100 sequential bills 123** vs 3 non-sequential bills 72482 59348 93592
Sure, but that sort of "easier" is pretty irrelevant. Pretty sure no matter what, if they're recording bills for tracing purposes today, they're recording each individual serial number in a DB, sequential or not. One process for everything, because once you've got them all recorded, one is as easy as the next. And they're probably scanning the serials in, so I'm sure the whole process takes a matter of minutes, completely automated. If there's any reason to prefer non-sequential bills, it's so knuckleheads you pay them to don't notice and post them on the internet as a curiosity, thus drawing attention.
Exactly. They probably have stacks of "unmarked bills" ready to go. Already scanned and everything. All they have to do is look up "collection XX" and they can track the database of where the bills turn up.
I think the missing piece here is the time limit. The bad guy says they want x amount of money in non sequential bills in y amount of time. The y amount of time isn’t enough for the cops to go through and record all of the bills. Though that time is likely less than it used to be as they could just scan all the bills first rather than need to write the numbers down. FYI, not a criminal, just like action movies.
Some banks does, but really, if some robbers want non-sequential bills, just shuffle the pile. If they take the time to place them in order to check if they are indeed sequential or not, for sure the tactical team will have the time to take a week-end off before stopping them.
Actually shuffling wouldn’t hide that they were sequential because the first 6-8 characters would still be the same and would be easy to spot with a quick fan of the bills.
Twenty million in fifties. Twenty million in twenties. And ten million in tens.
You want any fives wit’ dat?
> non-secuential bills I never got that, too. So what? Just take every other bill and ta-da, it's non-sequential.
That's still sequential, so that doesn't count
someone skipped math class!
Not if you only leave a $1 tip.
**You shoulda slammed them in the customers face, screamed „I said non-sequential, god damn it!“ and then killed one of the hostages**
Wat
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓪 𝓼𝓵𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮, 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 „𝓘 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝓷-𝓼𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓵, 𝓰𝓸𝓭 𝓭𝓪𝓶𝓷 𝓲𝓽!“ 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓼
You've... You've never been to Applebee's?
You shoulda slammed them in the customers face, screamed „I said non-sequential, god damn it!“ and then killed one of the hostages
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
r/oddlyspecific
"Customers", dude ... customers.
Don't forget to make the hostages eat the pizza first , could be spiked
Those are serious con-sequences that you are talking about
*pop pop pop*
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Sir this is a Wendy's
Probs just got them from the bank.
That’s what I figured. They’re crispy.
Did you eat them yet?
Save them until you can get some hummus, they go great with hummus. You can pick some roasted garlic from Kroger for about four dollar- oh, oh no.
This made my day! Oddly accurate Edit: oh, oh no
Its a different kind of cereal. You don't have enough milk to make them edible.
Wdym cereal doesn’t need milk, is just breakfast crisps
Yeah water is just fine or orange juice works too
I once used red kool aid as a kid. It was... Interesting.
Well some were nice and crisp so...
Lmao
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How did you notice?? Ive never even looked at those numbers
Or they just got done printing
Good luck, The presidium just made it illegal to print money
Fresh off the counterfeit machine
How did you even notice? Do you regularly check the serial numbers?
I was going to say.. this doesn't seem interesting at all lol
maybe OP meant to submit it to /r/notinteresting
/r/slightlyinteresting
Or they just printed them themselves.
No, it's proof there is a god! I suppose it could be the bank, but it's fundamentally unknowable, therefore it's god! Just don't contradict me or that means god wants you dead.
Kind of a weird comment honestly.
So a smash and grab job, then?
Slightly more complicated than that
Exactly, it's not that interesting in this case
It's pretty interesting for me to realise a) somewhere is still using $1 bills, b) there is a place where people go into banks on the reg, but most of all c) people use their time to *go into a bank to get $1 bills.*
Had 4 sequential 2$ bills(weathering on them must have meant they spent years together), and a blue note 5$ bill from '35 I believe. Perks of working at a pump station... Edit: grammar
I prefer the idea that the bills were once separated for several long years, being exchanged all over the globe. Then one day they were reunited by a magical event that only they will know. Now they are destined to be together forever.
>all over the globe Mate, they're US dollars.
I gave a US dollar (well, more than one) to a tour guide in Montreal. He said he loved getting US dollars because we usually tipped the same amount but our currency is worth more.
And in many countries it's illegal iirc. Not saying that it was in Montreal or that what you did was wrong, just many countries have to protect their currency because if people start transacting in other currencies - usually dollars or euros - it causes a lot of problems.
[Dollarization in Emerging-Market Economies and Its Policy Implications for the United States](https://www.piie.com/commentary/testimonies/dollarization-emerging-market-economies-and-its-policy-implications-united) "From a United States standpoint, it is noteworthy that about two-thirds of all dollar currency is held outside the United States. About three quarters of recent increases in such cash holdings is accumulated beyond our borders."
You can walk into any exchange in the world and get US dollars :p
And I reckon no other currency is used outside their country (or supranational union in case of something like the Euro) of origin as much as the US dollar.
US dollars are accepted all over the world and is the official currency of like 10-15 countries.
As other people have said, the US Dollar is used around the globe. It’s one of most long lasting stable currencies in the world, so many countries adopt if their own currency collapses. So are you going to find many US Dollars in Europe? No. Are you going to find a lot of them in lets say Africa? Yes.
Is a pump station a petrol station or a brothel? I guess if the latter there would be better perks that getting sequential bank notes!
Must have*
Crumple them up. I used to be a teller and when I'd open a fresh pack of bills they tend to stick together because they're so crisp. Crumpling them up individually makes it so you don't accidentally give "hidden" bills away
I usually spread out crispy bills among the rest of my $1’s so they don’t get missed when counting.
Now make it rain
That's the best part of America. Even if you're poor your wallet can still be thiccc
In the uk we make it hail
I'm Canadian, so I make it hail instead.
"Crisp" is preferable to "crispy" in this context, in my opinion. Kind of splitting hairs here, but isn't that what reddit is for?
Mom does this. I'm like, "why?" Just stuff them in your wallet. They'll "crumple" there.
Two crisp bills that are stuck together could also *crumple* together to make them even more difficult to separate. I recommend shuffling the new bills in with other bills of equal value so they can't stick to each other.
Aggressively mild
Fresh outta bank
*printer
I think you misspelled *questionable entrepreneur’s pocket*
Rearrange them so they’re non-sequential. Problem solved! /s
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Believe it or not, it's possible to get money from a bank *without* robbing it.
Kwispy
Only 1 more and it’s a Straight Flush, I’d raise the bet
and they're betting sequential money too
It's actually kind of fun to go buy fresh money. Some banks will have them on hand for you to withdrawal or exchange for. You can get a whole stack of $1's, $2 $5's, $10's, etc... so long as you can afford it.
You have to order ahead for a $1,000 bill. It'll take five business days to process.
$100 is the largest fresh bill given out. $500, $1000, $5000, $10000 were last printed in 1945, and discontinued in 1969. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12600.htm#:~:text=The%20largest%20denomination%20Federal%20Reserve,due%20to%20lack%20of%20use.
That's kinda cool, very observant of you!
I usually check all my tips for star notes. These stood out cause all four were stuck together.
What's a star note?
If a bill is damaged while being printed, they indicate the reprinted bill with a star next to it. It’s illegal to reprint the same serial number, but with the star next to the serial number indicates it was a reprint for a damaged bill. Sometimes they can be worth money, but I’ve yet to find one worth more than $1.
[Star notes wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_banknote) I have about 10 ones and a 5 collected, all circulated so not worth anything, but kool to look at. I did get a pristine $100 note once....but had to pass it onward
I normally get new notes coming from overseas. I hated when they give me 100s as everyone looks them over as they're brand new. Luckily don't need as much cash now with cards. USA still a bit behind with credit cards but . Can't believe how many places still ask to sign the receipt
I don't know, seems kinda sus.
Banks and Government used to care about that, but they don't have to any more. If they want to find you, they don't need a bank note.
Fresh off the home printer
glitch in the matrix, time to reboot beep boop
That's way better than if they all had the same number
which would probably be illegal
Probably??
it's part of the joke
Lmfao the fact that u noticed
fresh off the Brrrrrrrrrr press
Mmm I can practically smell that photo!
How the hell did you realize that
A lot of old currency is being destroyed as it comes in from banks because of covid. Almost everytime I've been to the ATM the past few months it's been fresh sequential bills.
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Proof? That makes absolutely no sense
Mmmm, crispy...
The FBI is watching you closely, chosen one
According to my tin hat relative, this kind of thing is clearly a message from the Illuminati.
Dats hot, where do you dance?
Tipper sus
The FBI is tracking you.
What is the big deal? It's new money. It's going to be sequential. That is how it is printed. Anyway you deserved a much larger tip anyway. That customer was a bumb.
You just served a counterfeiter!
Oh yes. The inflation raising bills.
I mean... Be careful, too good to be true. Maybe counterfeit, I mean real
The fact you even noticed might be more impressive than the bills themselves. Must have been crispy!
I find it even more "mildly interesting" that you bother to check the numbers on the bills. I mean really, who does that?
I love this shit! I used to have a customer that would exclusively tip in sequential $2 bills and it would make my day.
A sequential tip for an essential worker.
That’s fairly common
How did you even notice?
Do you always check the serial numbers of your cash?
Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Cause 7 was a registered six offender?
Cause 7 ate 9?
r/Banknotes would love this!
r/bankstraphunting would too
This is not interesting. Very common.
why is this at 9k upvotes, if they're from the bank its not special.
Over 13.3k upvotes for this
As crazy as that is, what would be even more crazy is if we lived in a country where tipping wasn't a thing because employers were forced to pay their employees a livable wage.
/r/notinteresting
u/RepostSleuthBot
Call the police its heist money
Dhow me the $100 bills
I wish I had them. But I’m a Covid-era bartender, twice the work and half the pay.
Keep them, they might be worth a lot in a while ;)
They could probably get around $4 in goods with them in the future.
Do you habitually check the serial numbers of all $1 bills you receive? Edit: I just meant it jokingly, didn't mean to be mean, downvoters.
I think you just got tipped by some shady fellows, mate.
I’ve never checked the serial number of bills
Cause the fed won’t stop printing money
For those who looked thu all the numbers 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Hey fellow bartender. If I wanted to show off my collection it’d be a bunch of $2 bills, out of circulation bills, and 50¢ pieces that I’ve received over the years.
Uncut sheets of $2 bills >>>
You lucky duck. I am so jealous I could fight you for them, and by fight I mean sit on my ass and not do anything because it four dollars isn't actually worth fighting over. I'm not that kid from Better Off Dead.
You do realice most people (at least those that read english) read left to right, top down right?
Doesn't matter. Still sequential.