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Article #6865Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
From: Ken Leonard
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00
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ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu wrote: : Ken Leonard (ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com) wrote: : : $1,000, $5,000, and even $10,000 US Bills have been printed in limited : : numbers and are in fact legal tender to this day. The BEP had a display : : at the Long Beach Coin show in October that included a full sheet of : : $100,000 bills! These bills, though printed have never been released and : : likely never will be. : As I recall, there were some $100,000 dollar bills circulated at one time, : and some number are not accounted for (i.e. never returned to a Fed. Res. : bank). So folks, be sure to check inside grandma's old matress before you : toss it out . . . ;-) : -- : ***************************************************************************** : * Bill Ranck +1-540-231-3951 ranck@vt.edu * : * Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Computing Center * : ***************************************************************************** Not to my knowledge. The $100,000 bills were *NEVER* released period. There was a story, supposedly true about a time when the treasury building buned and some $10,000 bills got out. This was in the late 1800's or early 1900's as I recall from an account I read one time. -Ken
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11474a,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,4f61367ee31658a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Ken Leonard) Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet? Date: 1996/03/19 Message-ID: <4inn1h$esb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> X-Deja-AN: 143228787 references: <4hrb4o$q89@news2.deltanet.com> <julianDo2H6y.6Gw@netcom.com> <4i1fqd$7cn@crick.bms.com> <john-1103961816460001@bovine.ati.com> <4i74j3$5gm@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4ikhcc$aju@solaris.cc.vt.edu> followup-to: misc.consumers,ba.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences