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I'd be scared it was fake today. Biggest I handle are C notes and even those cause me alarm.
When I was working at Dairy Queen in the mid 70s each night around 10:00pm, the owner would take the deposit envelope, hop on a stingray bicycle, and ride about 10 blocks to the bank and drop it in the night deposit. This was not a good neighborhood. We all knew that. He did too. Yet in the 20-30 years that owned that DQ he never got mugged, and the DQ never got robbed. Remarkable.When I was a car dealer gopher mostly washing and gasing cars or bringing out keys to those looking there were times the owner sent me on a bank run to Bank of America.
16 years old and thousands in cash with a deposit slip in my button shirt pocket.
Maybe thought a kid would be the last person carrying cash?
This is when I saw $500 and $1000 bills...
I've heard both "months" and "years" on the news, but I'd think it'd have to be something like 12 - 24 months, based on other similar bridge replacements in recent history.Yeah, but how long to get that bridge replaced? Jon
I think this is why we see less bills over $100 now. Between the ease of forgery with modern available tech, and the comparative ease and security of electronic transactions, how many are still using cash for purchases so large that a stack of $100's is not going to work?I'd be scared it was fake today. Biggest I handle are C notes and even those cause me alarm.
The reason you see less bills over $100 now is that they stopped printing them in 1969 per Nixon, as I recall.I've heard both "months" and "years" on the news, but I'd think it'd have to be something like 12 - 24 months, based on other similar bridge replacements in recent history.
Moreover, our President had a press conference yesterday stating roughly "we are committed to replacing this bridge at the expense of the Federal government." If done purely for expedience, I can understand that, get the damn thing built now and sort the dollars later. But I'd think that eventually the insurer of that boat would be on the hook for this?
I think this is why we see less bills over $100 now. Between the ease of forgery with modern available tech, and the comparative ease and security of electronic transactions, how many are still using cash for purchases so large that a stack of $100's is not going to work?
You can pretty easily carry $10k - $20k in c-notes. I'm not sure I want to be in a business where I'm making or accepting payments larger than that, with cash.
Yep. But that's "when" and "who", more than "why"!The reason you see less bills over $100 now is that they stopped printing them in 1969 per Nixon, as I recall.
The "why" is any bill that's over $100 and still in circulation is most likely in the hands of a collector.Yep. But that's "when" and "who", more than "why"!
You're saying Nixon stopped the printing of $100 bills in 1969, solely to benefit collectors?The "why" is any bill that's over $100 and still in circulation is most likely in the hands of a collector.