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- From: stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger)
- Subject: Re: Legal Tender?? A different Twist
- Organization: Summit NJ
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:31:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183111.1748@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <43987@fibercom.COM> <1h7k9vINNioh@gap.caltech.edu>
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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
- >
- >What I have heard is that anything over 1/2 can be turned in (at a bank,
- >I presume) for a new bill.
- >
- >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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- It's 2/5 and 3/5 of a bill. Over 3/5 of a bill is good for full value;
- between 2/5 and 3/5 is good for half value.
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- Stan Krieger All opinions, advice, or suggestions, even
- UNIX System Laboratories if related to my employment, are my own.
- Summit, NJ
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