Well i have a question: today I've received a dutch (P) 10€ note with "ABN AMRO" well printed on it. I wondered what it was and entered it but that wansn't a hit. So does anybody know what it is? Anybody else has seen such a mark on a note?
That's weird, I don't understand why banks mark notes...
A few weeks ago I got a note with a phone number printed, as it was from Belgium I looked it up in the inverted Golden Pages and is saw that it was the phone number of the ING bank in Florenville.
It was kind of a hit for me hehe; Florenville - Verviers = about 130 km by motorway.
Once, I had a Dutch bill with a Dutch phonenumber. I didn't called it but I wrote it down as a comment.
No, I'm not going to search that bill entry between all my others .
I had also a note with a love letter, a supermarket list, many numbers, ... and a protest stamp -see scan-.
Last edited by bhoeyb on Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
In that topic bhoeyb wrote:
I think sometimes a bank puts a stamp on the 'lias' (paper around a bundle of banknotes). Sometimes, they stamp the first banknote too.
BTW I once got a note stamped by a German bank. I could only read:
.................
78 AB...................ungen
Thanks for the tip, Airis! Neubrandenburg has the right length. I didn't try find the place, because Germany must be full of places beginning with "neu" and ending with "burg". OK, OK, I was too lazy.
I hope the mystery of AB.......ungen is someday revealed. There must other notes with same stamp circulating somewhere..
Ernst wrote:ABN Amro is also in Germany, at least in Bonn!
They're everywhere. For example, I think they're one of the biggest, if not thé biggest, banks in Brazil...
BTW, this reminded me of what is the biggest text you see right away when you arrive Helsinki by train (for example from Moscow). On a house's roof there's the text "Deutsche Bank" in quite a big font :)
I'm not sure if it's visible anymore because they've built a lot of this and that around the railway station building (thus ruining its architechtural importance).