Old $100 Bills

to CCF. They are still legal tender and should be accepted at all establishments.If you want to you can go to any bank and trade them for new bills.
John1

I concur as well. Little to no issues with spending them.

An interesting side note, I read an article that in some Asian countries, many store owners won't accept anything but crisp, new bills. They'll accept used ones if you push hard enough or try taking your business elsewhere, but generally prefer new bills.

WYMAN, be careful of the 1996 series $100. I've read that many businesses won't take it because it may be one of the high-quality counterfeit notes. I also read somewhere about a cashier not recognising an older note and calling it counterfeit, even though it's legit.



This is true in Indonesia for high-value foreign paper money (which is pretty much all, considering currently 1 US$ = Rp 15k). Whenever you use foreign paper (take note that buying and selling goods using foreign currency has recently been banned), which the most often if the US dollar, it is always crisp without folds.

I went to a Canadian bank to split my crisp $100 bill before a trip to the US just a little over a year ago, and I asked the teller, "Is it okay to fold US bills?" to which he responded by folding it, saying "Like this? Of course it's okay, how are you going to put it in your pocket otherwise?"

You shouldn't have any problem, but inexperienced cashiers may hesitate to take bills from before 1993 (they do not have a metal security strip before Series 1993). They are still perfectly legal tender--just change them out at any bank if you run into trouble spending them.

Here's a tip: Go to coin shops in your area and try to get your hands on some old US currency for cheap, lol.

Then when you come here, exchange it in and you'll have more money than you figured.