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- From: mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.)
- Subject: Re: Legal Tender?? A different Twist
- Organization: BITS, St. Louis, MO
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:05:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.220523.6823%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu>
- References: <43987@fibercom.COM> <1992Dec22.173346.2004@nynexst.com>
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- schwartz@nynexst.com (Steven Schwartz) 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
-
- >From memory (it's been years):
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- >60 - 100% of the bill = 100% value
- >40 - 60% = 50% value
- >< 40% = 0
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- Don't know about this--I believe it is all or nothing.
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- I do know if you send enough (serial number? portrait?) of the bill
- to the US Mint (or to whomever handles it), they will send you back
- a new bill of the same denomination.
-
- Mike
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