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Well, the good Dr. tried to hold Earth ransom for $1million. This guy just made his own. Snarky...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_ ... ollar_bill

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Who's face is that there? Teddy Roosevelt? I like the mustache.

I really don't think that's Teddy. I could be wrong, though.

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a $1 million bill? really? now that's just ridiculous. he could have at least tried to do it with a few hundreds or something that ACTUALLY EXISTS.

That still leaves the very important question. Whose face did this lunatic counterfeiter choose for his criminal masterwork?

Grover Cleveland? Closest I could figure.

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I think you may have solved the mystery, Flip.

That's a funny choice of presidents to put on that bill. Then again, I'm no counterfeiter, so what do I know.

I would've used Calvin Coolidge.

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How about Warren G. Harding? >_>

There are supercurrency notes in existence, and they stretch to that kind of sum. I believe there's a million pound note, they're just used in the most high security of banks. They're not legal tender as such, more like placeholders. Sort of.

The largest bill the US ever made was a $100,000 bill; Wilson was on the face. However, I'm positive that nothing greater than the $100 bill was ever legal for civilian use; all the "megabills" were for bank transfers and it was illegal for a citizen to even possess one.

Ironically, Cleveland was known for opposing inflationary policies.

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i personally love the fact that america decided to put jackson on the $20 bill, considering the fact that he hated the national bank and was the one responsible for destroying it (or at least the first incarnation of it).

I never knew how ignorant I was about money... I guess that's due to the fact that I was ignorant about it. I wish I'd saved a few Canadian $2 bills before they got switched to coins.

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I'd like to know who made the whole Andrew Jackson descision, I never really thought about that.

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there are bills larger then $100. if you look on ebay sometimes you can find 500, 1,000, and 10,000 ones. just search for "500 bill", although most the time you just find replicas.

there are, they're just no longer in production. bills were made up to 100k, but anything over 100 was mostly used in transfering money between banks.

and in related news, i once saw that someone had printed off counterfit billion dollar bills and was arrested when he tried to cash one. the bills were flawlessly made, except for the fact that there has never been a $1 billion denomination of US currency.

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