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Justdroppedin
03-08-2024, 12:40 PM
https://i.redd.it/bbvgz50cksmc1.jpeg

Gates07
03-08-2024, 03:14 PM
now they have to be very rare, thanks for sharing, i can only imagine how much they are worth today, i have never seen one, sure would not mind have a few of them, but then where would you be able to spend them, i know a football game

TLG
03-08-2024, 03:49 PM
now they have to be very rare, thanks for sharing, i can only imagine how much they are worth today, i have never seen one, sure would not mind have a few of them, but then where would you be able to spend them, i know a football game

no one saw any because they were never in circulation
today they would be worth 2.3M

Terryl
03-08-2024, 05:50 PM
It's a gold certificate, it's worth 100,000 dollars in gold, they were used for inter-bank transfers, gold was worth $35 an ounce back in 1934, if bank A owed bank B a ton of money due to some big purchase, (bank B owned a big building, and some customer from bank A bought it) they would send one (or more) of these notes to bank B, it was easier then transporting 2857 ounces of gold or bags of $100 dollar bills.

My Uncle was a banker, he showed me a $50,000 bill, (Wilson on it again) he explained why they had such big bills, this was before the use of wire transfers.

swan
03-09-2024, 12:57 PM
I saw a 1,000 dollar bill once , never saw another

Terryl
03-09-2024, 05:38 PM
Due to inflation and the devalued dollar, they are thinking of starting to use $500 dollar bills, as a 100 bucks doesn't go very far now days.

1/2 a cart of grocery's, maybe a tank of gas.

auggie
03-09-2024, 06:13 PM
At least Canadian notes have COLOR US Notes=NO COLOR ?

swan
03-10-2024, 01:19 PM
Due to inflation and the devalued dollar, they are thinking of starting to use $500 dollar bills, as a 100 bucks doesn't go very far now days.

1/2 a cart of grocery's, maybe a tank of gas.

not even a tank , I filled up yesterday with almost a 1/4 tank and it was 130.00 USD