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Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?

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From: Ken Leonard
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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From: ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Ken Leonard)
Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
Date: 1996/03/19
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