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I have a picture of the Million dollar note back and front to post but it is too large. Can I send it to anyone who can examine it or post it for me?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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try to spend it-- maybe they will make change!
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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try to spend it-- maybe they will make change!
Or you will go to jail and be fined like this guy did http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news...ncx-20110120 . The fact here is there is no way the note is real because there were absolutely NO 1 million dollar Bills ever printed EVER! so it can not be real. I will send you an email and you can send the pictures to me and I will upload them for you but its not going to change the facts that its not real |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This topic is hilarious!  No offense is meant to anyone, but it's good to have a nice laugh when you have a crappy day... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yes Bryan I was joking
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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here are the pictures he sent me  As you can see this is definitely a novelty note, its marked "Federal Reserve Note" on the front but then has some saying I can't make out from these pictures about a 1928 Silver Certificate that would not be there even if there were a million dollar note |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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man thats a funny note
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Valued Member
Guatemala
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"....Payable in gold, silver, treasure and jadeware..."
You know... It really isn't healthy to laugh this hard.
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New Member
United States
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Bryan, thanks for posting the pictures for me today. I can see why this is funny to the experts in this field. I am in the food processing business and am sure there are many things all of you would not know about my industry. I am glad I checked with this forum because when something like this comes up, and I have no knowledge of this field, its hard to know truth from fiction.
Thank all of you for your opinion and leading me in the right direction.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I was definitely not laughing, I am so glad you did decide to ask someone that actually may know before you tried to spend it and get yourself in trouble
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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where would you spend it? a real estate brokerage? or an auction? buy a yacht?
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Rvmillers,
My laughter was directed at what was written on the bill, and not at you. You can see from the pictures of other examples I posted earlier real stories of faked banknotes which actually did fool people, who ended up losing very large amounts of money in some cases. I sincerely hope that all than was lost here was just the the effort to write a few postings and emails. It would be a pleasure if you stayed around, and continued with the forum, so you can continue to learn, along with the rest of us, about all the 'little stories' behind money.
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Most folks are not at all familiar with older currency, and there are quite a few folks who are not familiar with modern currency.
The note that JM posted I would consider to be an altered note, produced with intent to deceive, while most of the million dollar notes available today are novelty notes, obviously with no such intention..... The OP's note I might consider to be almost a hybrid..... The back is definitely printed in the novelty vein, with the reference to gold, silver and jadeware, but the face is what is interesting to me.
The face contains a conglomeration of features that span a great period of time in U.S. currency history.... For instance, what I see at quick glance is that the note displays two seals, one of the scalloped type on the right (used from 1891 to the last printings of the series 1923 silver certificates in 1928).... the seal on the left is of modern proportions (except for size), yet shows no spikes (similar to the round seals used briefly in the mid 1880s).
The arched series identifier was used on certain small sized notes from 1928 into the 1930s.
While Federal Reserve Notes were definitely in use in 1928, this particular design was not, and while the folks who's signatures appear on this note may have been alive in 1928 (maybe), they most likely were not employed by the Treasury at that time..... all in all an interesting note, with a lot of strange features that seem to be chosen for their aesthetic appeal of authenticity rather than for laughs.
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Then there have been cases (not recently, thankfully), where someone managed to exchange a multi-million mark German note for USD at a major bank.
The note was absolutely genuine, but demonitized along with all their other money from the trillion-to-one inflation of 1923.
Of course, anyone working foreign exchange with authority to make six-figure transactions who isn't familiar with that history should be fired.
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