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Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?

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From: ranck
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:00
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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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From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu ()
Subject: Re: $2.00 bills good or conterfiet?
Date: 1996/03/18
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