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In article <4inn1h$esb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
Ken Leonard <ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>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 . . . ;-)
>
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>
>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.

When I was a kid back in the late 1940s, a local movie theater had a
$10,000 bill on display in connection wiht some movie involving money.
They ahd it in a glass case in the lobby, and it wasn't guarded as
heavily as one would think, the explanation being that if someone stole
it there wasn't much tehy could do wiht it.



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