{"id":20513,"date":"2026-06-21T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20513"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:32:12","slug":"the-fascinating-history-behind-unusual-symbols-found-on-u-s-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20513","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating History Behind Unusual Symbols Found on U.S. Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"150\">Unusual symbols on money are usually\u00a0<strong data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"114\">old merchant \u201cchop marks\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0used to verify that a bill is real.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1700470\" data-uid=\"12369\">\n<div id=\"mgw1700470_12369\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\">\n<div id=\"661891d2-6d9f-11f1-98df-d404e677c390\" class=\"mgline teaser-27268759 type-w\" data-i=\"nTaW6oQI5i0E8JeoHn8IRTTsx_jh5Ua_vI8L8mB-iidB4p0MuZQCZb0Yl3IA4qRSFFeTR4YBYWfvk-C5r-z9MmAI9IMed0yAoeQbPKMWOxvJlk4rcg4pv6RkZ6yl4MMC\" data-observing-start=\"1782066707662\" data-observing-time=\"1475\" data-showed=\"1\">\n<div class=\"mgline-inner\">\n<div class=\"mgbottom_media\">\n<div class=\"mgmedia__metrics-value\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"339\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">They come from historical trade practices where traders stamped currency after checking it was genuine. Today, these marks are harmless and usually\u00a0<strong data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"338\">don\u2019t affect the value of the note<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Unusual symbols on money are usually\u00a0old merchant \u201cchop marks\u201d\u00a0used to verify that a bill is real. They come from historical trade practices where traders stamped <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20513\" title=\"The Fascinating History Behind Unusual Symbols Found on U.S. Currency\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20515,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/revisions\/20515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}