A rare $1,000 bill was sold at a Baltimore auction this week. Nicknamed the grand watermelon, for all the ornamental zeros on the back, it is one of only seven known bills of this denomination and one of three in private hands. More
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20+ years ago, I worked across 25-30 branches of a large bank. It was a fun position because I was never at the same location for longer than a week or two. I found out the coin machines had magnets by the feeder to catch things like paper clips, but they also caught steel pennies.
Every time I stopped at a new branch I would ask the tellers if there were any pennies in the magnets or if they found any interesting coins and bills. I would buy them from the tellers.
One day a teller told me she had a $500 bill. Cool! I bought it from her drawer for $500. I held onto it for a couple years, but unfortunately found myself needing $500, so I sold it to a collector for a little more than $700.
They sell for a bit more today.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%24500+bill&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
July,11th
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cVF2LlOx6Zc/TSOYp7Xu9AI/AAAAAAAAODU/xjEuS9UeNcA/s1600/DP1961SevenDollar.jpg
What with the cost of living today, I’m surprised the $500 bill isn’t being printed and circulated.
aNoN, Go to Venezuala,they got
500 trillion dollar bills.1 gets
you a cold beer.