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In article <hatunenDoJx3x.B21@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
>From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
>Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:40:45 GMT

>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 . . . ;-)
>>
>>: --
>>: *****************************************************************************
>>: * 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.

>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.

I can see it:

"OK, sir, that'll be three-fifty for the fillup."

"Here you go."

"What the hell is this??!!?"

;-)


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