The bill with the spot

[querty]

Today I went to hire a film. I received one bill with a spot. So I thought I'm going to make a poll about that, with the question is it a hit or not. Tomorrow Saturday the 16th I shall enter the bill after 13 o'clock in the afternoon Belgian time (I think 14 o'clock Finnish time). After that I'm coming with the answer.

I think yes

[HNL]

Where on the note did you find the spot?

[barclay]

I put spots in lower right corner, so than I know wich one I had already in the safe at work and wich are new...

[Petri6]

I think lots of people who have never even heard of EBT, mark their bills with a spot. So I think that changes of that being a hit are better than with a bill that has no spot, but it's still not a sure hit.

[querty]

Sadly it isn't a hit. There was a red spot on a 5€ bill from Belgium under the aquaduct.

[Skylimit]

I had at least 10, probably 15 "dotted" bills so far,
which were NOT a hit ...

Especially in Italy ...
Also strange, Italians tend to write numbers, and sometimes whole sentences on their bills

[bhoeyb]

I had voted 'no' too so I was right.

Yes, I've seen dotted notes too, even notes with a strange -arabic?- stamp. If a note looks dotted to me -or it's stamped-, I write it as a comment. You never know which EBTer dottes his bills. When it's a hit, we know ...

[querty]

I had voted 'no' too so I was right.

Yes, I've seen dotted notes too, even notes with a strange -arabic?- stamp. If a note looks dotted to me -or it's stamped-, I write it as a comment. You never know which EBTer dottes his bills. When it's a hit, we know ...

Yes I've written it to in comment that there was a spot on. Maybe the next one who enters it will write that to in the comment. But I think when the bank gets the bill, the bill will be taken out of circulation. These dotted notes were that mostly 5€ notes? Can you remember that?

[nomead]

Yes, I've seen dotted notes too, even notes with a strange -arabic?- stamp. If a note looks dotted to me -or it's stamped-, I write it as a comment.

I've seen exactly one note with probably the same arabic (or Sanskrit?) stamp. Too bad I didn't take a picture of it. It seems to have been an Italian 20€ note. Still, no EBT hit.

I even got it from an ATM so this proves that at least in Finland, even heavily marked notes can get redistributed. I don't know whether the note has been through the central bank though. ATM notes may come from private sorting facilities.

[bhoeyb]

Yes I've written it to in comment that there was a spot on. Maybe the next one who enters it will write that to in the comment. But I think when the bank gets the bill, the bill will be taken out of circulation. These dotted notes were that mostly 5€ notes? Can you remember that?

Mostly 5 and 10E notes.

I've seen exactly one note with probably the same arabic (or Sanskrit?) stamp. Too bad I didn't take a picture of it. It seems to have been an Italian 20€ note. Still, no EBT hit.

The stamp on my bill was prox. 0,5cm x 1cm. I can't remember the value. I don't have a picture eigther .

[emmem]

Today I had a double dotted note too. It was a 5 one. The first dot was above the signature, the second above the portal on the same height than the top of the 5. The dots are very faint, I almost overlooked them.

I remember having dotted notes from time to time. But I think they are very easily overlooked. Anyway when I see dots I mention it in my comments.

[Lou Crazy]

Also strange, Italians tend to write numbers, and sometimes whole sentences on their bills

True.

Bank clerks and other people who handle lots of cash often make rolls of notes after counting them, and they write the number on the first note in the roll.

With lira there was a sort of tradition to write short thoughts on 1.000 lire notes (after all, they were only worth 52 eurocents). Some books were printed collecting such short thoughts.

A popular one was a good luck promise... provided you copied the same text on at least 10 other notes.

These pearls of wisdom are less frequent on Euro notes - after all, the smallest note denominated in euro is 10 times more expensive than the old 1.000 lire note.

I rarely see them now.

But I do have a rubber stamp which says "please record this bill on www.eurobilltracker.com" (in italian), and I hope it will increase my hits

Gino

[Skylimit]

With lira there was a sort of tradition to write short thoughts on 1.000 lire notes (after all, they were only worth 52 eurocents). Some books were printed collecting such short thoughts.

I found one of these in Poggibonsi

Check it out, I quoted the sentence

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php ... cb8ddb7c39

[Lou Crazy]

With lira there was a sort of tradition to write short thoughts on 1.000 lire notes (after all, they were only worth 52 eurocents). Some books were printed collecting such short thoughts.

I found one of these in Poggibonsi

A few days later I was in Monteleone di Orvieto, which isn't far from Poggibonsi!

Unfortunately, they never gave me a note from you as change

Check it out, I quoted the sentence

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php ... cb8ddb7c39

It says "Some people receive a lot, some people receive nothing: only a criminal government would damage our agricultural sector"

Gino

[hafla]

Today I went to hire a film. I received one bill with a spot. So I thought I'm going to make a poll about that, with the question is it a hit or not. Tomorrow Saturday the 16th I shall enter the bill after 13 o'clock in the afternoon Belgian time (I think 14 o'clock Finnish time). After that I'm coming with the answer.

I think yes

If you hadn't seen the spot, you would have entered the number anyhow.
So it is a hit.