okay.
I'm just saying your info from Brian about rubber bands debris on the front and back of each "bundle" in the center, seems like new info to me.
I don't think you can point to something with that amount of detail in older accounts?

or can you?

As far as I understand what you're saying, it's new info based on your personal conversations with Brian,  right?

I don't remember that amount of detail from prior accounts. So of course it should be questioned if it's new information?

That is correct. This is information from Brian directly. Some of it is even part of the archived Facebook Live conversation I had with him recently.

Additionally, Brian has provided additional context related to his mother cleaning the bills and what she noticed in terms of the rubber bands.

This is the data and version I'm running with. I have neither seen, read, or heard anything that contradicts it. As inconvenient for some as it may be, there were three separate straps, all stacked upon each other, found approximately 40 feet from the water's edge and at an elevation between 7'-8' above the Columbia on that February day. And they had been there for quite some time and rotted as such, which thereby fused each of these three straps into a separate clump with the darkest bills being on the ends of the straps.

And they had been there for quite some time and rotted as such, which thereby fused each of these three straps into a separate clump with the darkest bills being on the ends of the straps.

What information did he provide about "darkest" bills, or darkness variation? Is it just saying that the darker bills he provided to ha.com were on the outside of the bundles?

"darkness" is an important concept because the fbi has pics of very dark bills, and they have never acknowledged that they themselves caused that darkness (recent black bill pics in plastic bags, by fbi)

I always thought that the main "darkness" in pics from the FBI plastic bagged bills was from the silver nitrate used to test for prints.

Are you talking about the variation in darkness visible in the ha.com photos, or other photos, or memories that are not verifiable with photos?

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And they had been there for quite some time and rotted as such, which thereby fused each of these three straps into a separate clump with the darkest bills being on the ends of the straps.

What information did he provide about "darkest" bills, or darkness variation? Is it just saying that the darker bills he provided to ha.com were on the outside of the bundles?

"darkness" is an important concept because the fbi has pics of very dark bills, and they have never acknowledged that they themselves caused that darkness (recent black bill pics in plastic bags, by fbi)

I always thought that the main "darkness" in pics from the FBI plastic bagged bills was from the silver nitrate used to test for prints.

Are you talking about the variation in darkness visible in the ha.com photos, or other photos, or memories that are not verifiable with photos?

No, he's not referring to the black, silver nitrate, bills. It's just that the bills on the end were more soiled and darker than the ones near the center of the fused straps.

okay.

I guess we don't know what all could cause darkening of bills on the outside.

Is it due to algae growth?
Or is it discoloring due to sun?

If it was discoloring due to sun, i would think it would just be the top or bottom of a bundle, which was exposed to sun.

Is the theory that a bundle submerged in water over a period of time, gets discolored on the outside of the bundle, top and bottom?

or what is the theory about this darkness variation?

edit: or I guess a bundle buried in sand gets darker on the outside? algae growth again?

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okay.

I guess we don't know what all could cause darkening of bills on the outside.

Is it due to algae growth?
Or is it discoloring due to sun?

If it was discoloring due to sun, i would think it would just be the top or bottom of a bundle, which was exposed to sun.

Is the theory that a bundle submerged in water over a period of time, gets discolored on the outside of the bundle, top and bottom?

or what is the theory about this darkness variation?

edit: or I guess a bundle buried in sand gets darker on the outside? algae growth again?

I believe his mother was able to wash a lot of this dirt off. So it appears to have merely been dirt from resting in the hole.

well if that's true, that's interesting too.
I was going to suggest oxidation of the outside currency as a likely darkening method, in addition to sun or algae.

but, if the darkening was solely dirt, and when cleaned, the bills displayed uniform color regardless of their position in the bundle, (not outside vs outside). that's interesting, maybe.

PCGS Currency staff members discovered nearly three dozen serial numbers that apparently had not been previously recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Did they confirm what serial numbers were finally found that wasn't recorded. it would add up over $6,000

What causes rubbers bands to become hard and fall off leaving no trace, as opposed to being sticky and staying stuck? Is it one or the other based on "something" or

Were the rubber bands hard, or sticky?

I don't think any experiments have been done to explain how the cooper rubber bands disappeared between the find, and the fbi photographs.