My parents paid me in Confederate dollar bills once lol

My favorite counterfeit bill story (which turned out not to be counterfeit)...


Back when George W. Bush was in office... one fo the local ice cream places (Baskin-Robbins maybe or dairy queen?... I don't remember which one)....

Someone went through the drive through, ordered an $7 or $8 item...

Then they paid with a $200 George W. Bush bill.... and the clerk gave them the $190+ back...

The Secret Service was called in (because apparently Secret Service does counterfeit, which has never made sense to me, shoulder the treasury be doing it? But anyways)...


Apparently, legally it is not counterfeit, as there is no $200 bill... Therefore it's not a counterfeit of such a bill.

But it was still $190 worth of theft, so different law enforcement was still trying to track them down...

This is fake money they sell for motion picture props.

so instead of the customers being generous they were using you as a mark.
Guess you don’t remember who slipped you the bills?
on the other hand i found a benjamin in the grass when i was doing a pick up the litter trip. I am going to ask my bank before using it since 50s are a common target of counterfeits.

I was in Monopoly. Player tried to give me real ones.

So did you lose out?? Or does the bank eat the bad bills?

Father in law had a fake $1.00 coin passed in his little shop. He sold it for a dollar to some guy who wanted it as a collectable. I heard the the guy who made them spent more to make them than they were worth at face value. He didn't make very many of them.

If it’s American money I would have no idea!

What a rip off. They even sell realistic fake money.

Fortunately no

Dang that sucks. Going to have to start inspection on tips