Re: $10,000 bills (was $2.00 bills good or counterfeit?)

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From: l.a.ram
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00

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ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Ken Leonard) wrote:


>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

     I thought $10,000 bills were legal tender ONLY between banks.  I
can't remember where I heard it, but that impression has been with me
for quite a while.


     Lou.

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Subject: Re: $10,000 bills (was $2.00 bills good or counterfeit?)
Date: 1996/03/21
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