On the issue of Old Notes (circulated) versus New Notes (uncirculated) I can tell you this. The “Oil for Dinar” program is very real and those are called Private Placements. They require ONLY uncirculated notes to participate. Otherwise, if you aren’t in such a Private Placement exchange then it doesn’t matter at all. Also, new uncirculated notes of certain serial numbers are going to be used as Bonds. The new Dinar have all the info needed to be used as bonds and it was planned this way before the new notes were printed. They will be used on the unregulated trading platforms in Shanghai as part of certain trading packages.