2009A Hundred Dollar Bill with Strange Blue Symbol

This 2009A Hundred Dollar bill has a strange blue symbol on the reverse left side and error blue letters on the reverse right side edge what do you all think?

 

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The bad news-it's a teller stamp and considered as damage. The good news, it's still worth $100.00. Welcome to Coin Talk.

 

You see a lot of counterstamps on paper. For one thing - just one - it has been said that drug dealers stamp the notes as they are counted into bundles.

Another claim is that with about 1% of all notes being counterfeit and with $100s being heavily counterfeited, these are validation stamps, like the old chopmarks on 19th century silver crowns or the so-called "banker's marks" on ancient Greek and Roman coins.

Whether it is "damage" or not depends on your collecting interests. Q. David Bowers has at least one book and many, many articles on the subject of counterstamped coins.

 

yeah I hate it when folks "write" on bills and stamp them with ink stamps like that

 

Damaged so spend it.

 

So, a short snorter from World War II is ruined and you would just spend it?

 

That bill I would keep!! Look at all those signatures. There is some significance to that. I'd try to research their names. That bill has history. The first thing that came to my mind was they all served in the same outfit in WWII!

 

what's a teller stamp? You don't think its an error stamp from the treasury or something?

 

What about the blue symbol

 

whats a counter stamp

 

what about the blue symbol on the left

 

what about the blue symbol on the left

 

Sorry, it’s someone’s stamp. Considered damaged.

 

All bank tellers have a stamp. When bills are counted a paper strap is placed around the bills, in most cases the teller is required by their bank to stamp the paper strap so the counter can be identified in case of an error.

A counterstamp is a stamp that you me or anyone else can use to stamp a bill or a coin.

This is a counterstamp for paper money.

Same, it's part of a tellers stamp.

It's damaged, plain and simple. As a collector of paper money I would not be interested in this bill even at face value.

The only way you could get my interest would be to offer me less than face value. Like, I'll buy it for $90.00. Now you have my interest. Why? Because I can make $10.00 for my trouble when Zi spend it.

The next time you go to your bank, ask the teller about a tellers stamp. The education will do you good.

 

Heck no, that's a historical piece. Completely different than a tellers stamp.

 

As a banknote, it is worth $1. It is ruined by the signatures. However, it has value as a short snorter - different market. Someone interested in that will not be interested in it as a banknote but as a short snorter.

The same goes for love tokens. Unless the coin is an extreme rarity, making one into a love token removes all numismatic value, however, it becomes valuable as a love token on a different market.

 

Besides the info that everyone gave since I posted, which is correct, the only government markings on bills stopped a long time with over prints like the Hawaii and Africa and WW2 Japanese notes. The BEP does not add anything extra to notes.

 

Well said and if these names could be researched and the history behind these signatures verified it would make for an interesting display piece. IMHO.