One of my favorite factoids about US Currency is that no bill has ever been cancelled. A $5 note issued in 1873 is still valid currency. Take a $1,000 note to the bank, and they’ll give you change. A $2.5 gold piece will always be worth $2.5 (at least). Sure, the collection value is no doubt worth much more in most cases, but I had an old 50 French franc bill from the 1970s when I was in Paris in the mid-1990s, and I swear I thought they were going to call the cops on me.
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