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- From: roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Legal Tender?? A different Twist
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:46:39 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- rrg@rtp.fibercom.com (Rhonda Gaines) writes:
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- >How much of a dollar bill ($20 bill to be exact) do you have to have
- >before it's spendable? My husband found 3/4 of a $20 bill and
- >figured that it's probably unspendable but I thought I'd pose the
- >question anyway. Replies to rrg@fibercom.com
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- What I have heard is that anything over 1/2 can be turned in (at a bank,
- I presume) for a new bill.
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- This leads to thoughts of scams by exactly tearing bills in half (on a
- diagonal to make it harder to figure out if it is 1/2 or not) and then
- turning each half in for a new bill (at different places of course).
-
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- -- Brenda (roder@cobalt.caltech.edu)
- Thought before action, if there's time.
- _The Edge_ Dick Francis
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