Do you have change for a billion dollar bill?

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Man busted in California with billion dollar bills
15/03/2006 21:25


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There’s no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 (57,000 pound) gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe.

Necro

Who would still be taken in by a billion dollar bill? WTF

Mr. Kennedy

I saw this on CNN last week. I can't believe some people would be stupid enough to think that there is a $1 billion bill.

For those who don't know, the largest bill ever made was a $100,000 bill and it was only used by the government for the treasury.

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Necro

Who was on the 100,000 dollar bill?

and who is on the 1,000 dollar bill

isnt there a 10,000 dollar bill also

Mr. Kennedy

All bills larger than $100 are no longer in use:

$500 bill-William McKinley
$1,000 bill-Grover Cleveland
$5,000 bill-James Madison
$10,000 bill-Salmon Chase(former US Treasury Secretary/Supreme Court Chief Justice/US Senator)
$100,000 bill-Woodrow Wilson

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Reilly

Thats obviously because he got on the Simpsons.

Give it time