Grüezi Swiss-Reddit,

I’ve encountered a very weird issue. I found ~240g of CHF which was defintely put through the ‘schrederer’.

I found this in dusted old boxes of a company i took over a while ago and found this while cleaning.

Any Ideas what to do with it? Due to the fact that it’s not a broken ‘Note’ but many destroyed one.

Thanks for helping! Pictures attached – fyi i have not opened it up.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1prdz08

Posted by schoelmitj

26 Comments

  1. Time to puzzle and bring each full bill to the bank they should exchange it for a intact one 😀

  2. Intelligent_Prior416 on

    Isnt this some kind of thing you can buy? Like they are devalued and then shredded and sold again?

  3. Vegetable_Reveal_947 on

    I think there was some software developed in Germany to match up pieces of shredded Stasi documents. Maybe it could help here?

  4. SpiritedInflation835 on

    Before more people are commenting bullshit.

    The requirements for exchanging banknotes are either:

    * a whole bill, even when the serial number is illegible
    * ONE piece that is bigger than 50% of a whole bill, needs a legible serial number
    * TWO pieces that are together larger than 50% of a whole bill, the two pieces need to have legible serial numbers

    [https://www.snb.ch/dam/jcr:89f229a4-23ab-40ee-8c00-f3c719577aff/instr_damaged_notes.de.pdf](https://www.snb.ch/dam/jcr:89f229a4-23ab-40ee-8c00-f3c719577aff/instr_damaged_notes.de.pdf)

  5. These-Tie-8910 on

    Old bills are destroyed and then sold/gifted in packages like this. There is an official procedure for that. This is not worth than paper with pretty colors.

  6. I don’t think these are still valid, why else would they be shredded? but i don’t actually have any clue.

  7. More than “why were CHF bills shredded” I would like to know why they are so nicely packaged in vacuumed bag after shredding?

  8. Choice-Drawer3981 on

    Do you know it’s real or just specimens? Otherwise why would anyone want to shred it?

  9. Savings-Reply6184 on

    One banknote weighs about 1 gram. If they were all 10 CHF banknotes, it would be 2,400 CHF.