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'''Fake denominations of [[United States]] currency''' have been created by individuals as [[practical joke]]s, by money artists like [[J. S. G. Boggs]], or as genuine attempts at [[counterfeit]]ing. |
'''Fake denominations of [[United States]] currency''' have been created by individuals as [[practical joke]]s, by money artists like [[J. S. G. Boggs]], or as genuine attempts at [[counterfeit]]ing. |
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Before the passage of the [[National Banking Act]] of [[1863]], individual banks could issue their own currency. Many banks did so, resulting in a proliferation of banknotes of various denominations, and the need for merchants to have books explaining the characteristics of various notes. |
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==$3== |
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Various $3 bills have been released, generally poking fun at politicians or celebrities such as [[Richard Nixon]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[Michael Jackson]], or [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton]]; this likely stems from the American expression "queer as a three-dollar bill." |
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In an issue in the [[1960s]], [[Mad Magazine]] printed a three-dollar bill. This was not counterfeiting, but the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] complained to the magazine's editors, since people were cutting the bill out of the magazine in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]] and--successfully--using it to obtain change in bill changers. (On the bill, which had a portrait of [[Alfred E. Neuman]], a line read: "This is not legal tender--nor will [[Meat tenderizer|tenderizer]] help it.")<ref>''The MAD World of William M. Gaines,'' by [[Frank Jacobs]], [[1972]]; [[Lyle Stuart]]</ref> |
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Prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, individual banks offered their own currencies. The faces on the various currencies were standardized across the country, but the designs were per bank. Several banks issued three dollar bills, with the face of Santa Clause gracing the front of the note. Such banks included Howard Banking Company of Boston, the Central Bank of Troy, the Pittsfield Bank and the White Mountain Bank, and perhaps coincidentally, the St. Nicholas Bank of Manhattan.<ref>Common Place vol. 4 no. 4, Stephen Mihm. http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-04/mihm/2.shtml</ref> |
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==$200== |
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In [[2001]], a man bought a sundae at a [[Danville, Kentucky|Danville]], [[Kentucky]] [[Dairy Queen]] with a [[United States dollar|$]]200 bill featuring [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] and received $197.88 in change.<ref name="$200">[http://web.archive.org/web/20040902072028/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5890269/ In anything we trust: Clerks accept $200 bills bearing Bush picture, make change]. ''MSNBC''. Accessed August 22, 2006.</ref> In [[September]] [[2003]], a [[North Carolina]] man named Travis Martin used a $200 bill at a [[Food Lion]] to purchase $150 in groceries; the cashier cashed the fake bill and presented Martin with $50 in change.<ref name="$200" /> |
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==$1,000,000== |
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In [[March]] [[2004]], Alice Regina Pike attempted to use a $1,000,000 bill with a picture of the Statue of Liberty on the front to purchase $1671.55 in goods from a [[Wal-Mart]] in [[Covington, Georgia|Covington]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], for which she was promptly arrested.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4489683/ Woman says she thought $1 million bill was real], AP, via MSNBC.com, March 11, 2004.</ref> |
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In [[November]] [[2007]], Alexander D. Smith tried to open a bank account in [[Aiken County]], [[South Carolina]] by depositing a $1,000,000 bill. The bank employee refused to deposit the bill and called the police. Smith was immediately arrested on account of forgery. <ref>[http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2007-11-26-0038.html Ga. man tries to deposit fake $1M bill]</ref> |
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The [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] also makes an annual tradition of handing out informational fliers made to look like $1,000,000 bills on [[April 15]]th to draw attention to their anti-[[income tax]] platform. |
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Though not meant to be used as actual legal tender, [[Christian]] [[Evangelism|evangelist]] [[Ray Comfort]]'s ministry, [[Living Waters Publications]], produces another fake $1,000,000 bill featuring [[Grover Cleveland]], which is in reality a [[Tract (literature)|Christian gospel tract]]. It appears to be based on the [[United States twenty-dollar bill|series 2004 $20 bill]], with the gospel message around the back, and also includes some of their Web site addresses on the bill with the statement "This is NOT legal tender for all debts, public and private." After someone attempted to deposit one of the fake bills in [[North Carolina]], the Secret Service raided [[The Great News Network]], a sister ministry to LWP based in [[Denton, Texas|Denton]], [[Texas]], on [[June 2]], [[2006]]. The USSS told workers at GNN they would locate and seize all of the million dollar bills at LWP's [[Bellflower, California|Bellflower]], [[California]] headquarters. Comfort has been advised by his lawyers to refuse such an action, and no warrants yet appear to have been issued for the tracts.<ref>http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50495 </ref><ref>http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50497</ref> However, in a precautionary move LWP also produced an enlarged "Secret Service version."[http://www.livingwaters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=217] |
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==$1,000,000,000== |
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In late [[July]] 2006, Comfort's ministry also developed and began printing on a similar $1,000,000,000 bill (one billion USD). It has a color scheme more closely resembling the [[United States ten-dollar bill|series 2004A $10 bill]], although the background resembles the series 2004 $20 bill (like their "million-dollar bill"). The tract contains a similar gospel message and features to the million-dollar tract. However, the picture is instead that of [[19th century]] [[Great Britain|British]] evangelist [[Charles Spurgeon]], whose portrait obscures the last two zeros on the upper-left corner of the "bill." [http://www.livingwaters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=262] There have yet to be any repercussions from the Secret Service regarding this new tract. |
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In [[March]] [[2006]], agents from [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE) and the [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] seized 250 counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, each bearing a denomination of $1,000,000,000 (one billion USD) from a [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] apartment. The suspect, Tekle Zigetta, had previously been arrested on federal charges for attempting to smuggle more than $37,000 in currency into the US following a trip to [[Korea]] in [[2002]]. |
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==$8,000,000,000,000== |
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[[Image:8000000000000.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Fake 8 Trillion dollar bill made in 2005 around the time the national debt of the United States reached the same amount]] |
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An $8,000,000,000,000 (eight trillion USD) "Federal Deficit Note" was designed in 2005 by Alexander S. Peak to acknowledge what was at that time the [[United States public debt|national debt]] of the United States. (The national debt has since risen to over nine trillion USD.) |
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Notable characteristics immediately appear on the joke bill. For example, the president at that time, [[George Walker Bush|George W. Bush]], appears in the centre of the bill. Over the seal on the right-hand side of the bill appears the word <small>BROKE</small>. In place of the usual claim that a given bill is legal tender, this bill reads, "This note represents the legal tender stolen from you, the American people, and now constitutes the current federal debt, which increases every fiscal year." |
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==TWE Dollars== |
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[[Image:Twe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Fake "Twe" dollar bill]] |
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In the 1970s a fake bill was dispensed in gumball machines in the denomination of "TWE DOLLARS." Much of the artwork was duplicated from the real twenty-dollar bill, including the portrait of [[Andrew Jackson]]; however, the name "Jefferson" is depicted under Jackson's picture. Also the country name was given as "The Untied States of Anemia." The twe-dollar bill has 3s in the corners. |
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==See also== |
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*[[United States two-dollar bill#The two-dollar bill in American consciousness|Confusion over the (genuine) $2 bill]] |
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==Notes== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushbill1.html Fake $200 bill] |
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* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/fakemillion1.html Fake Million Dollar Bill] |
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* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0315062billion1.html Fake Billion Dollar Bills] |
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* [http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/060314losangeles.htm Homeland Security Agents Seize "Billion Dollar" Bogus Federal Reserve Notes] |
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Revision as of 23:50, 29 November 2007
Fake denominations of United States currency have been created by individuals as practical jokes, by money artists like J. S. G. Boggs, or as genuine attempts at counterfeiting.
Before the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863, individual banks could issue their own currency. Many banks did so, resulting in a proliferation of banknotes of various denominations, and the need for merchants to have books explaining the characteristics of various notes.
$3
Various $3 bills have been released, generally poking fun at politicians or celebrities such as Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, or Hillary Clinton; this likely stems from the American expression "queer as a three-dollar bill."
In an issue in the 1960s, Mad Magazine printed a three-dollar bill. This was not counterfeiting, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation complained to the magazine's editors, since people were cutting the bill out of the magazine in Las Vegas, Nevada and--successfully--using it to obtain change in bill changers. (On the bill, which had a portrait of Alfred E. Neuman, a line read: "This is not legal tender--nor will tenderizer help it.")[1]
Prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, individual banks offered their own currencies. The faces on the various currencies were standardized across the country, but the designs were per bank. Several banks issued three dollar bills, with the face of Santa Clause gracing the front of the note. Such banks included Howard Banking Company of Boston, the Central Bank of Troy, the Pittsfield Bank and the White Mountain Bank, and perhaps coincidentally, the St. Nicholas Bank of Manhattan.[2]
$200
In 2001, a man bought a sundae at a Danville, Kentucky Dairy Queen with a $200 bill featuring President George W. Bush and received $197.88 in change.[3] In September 2003, a North Carolina man named Travis Martin used a $200 bill at a Food Lion to purchase $150 in groceries; the cashier cashed the fake bill and presented Martin with $50 in change.[3]
$1,000,000
In March 2004, Alice Regina Pike attempted to use a $1,000,000 bill with a picture of the Statue of Liberty on the front to purchase $1671.55 in goods from a Wal-Mart in Covington, Georgia, for which she was promptly arrested.[4]
In November 2007, Alexander D. Smith tried to open a bank account in Aiken County, South Carolina by depositing a $1,000,000 bill. The bank employee refused to deposit the bill and called the police. Smith was immediately arrested on account of forgery. [5]
The Libertarian Party also makes an annual tradition of handing out informational fliers made to look like $1,000,000 bills on April 15th to draw attention to their anti-income tax platform.
Though not meant to be used as actual legal tender, Christian evangelist Ray Comfort's ministry, Living Waters Publications, produces another fake $1,000,000 bill featuring Grover Cleveland, which is in reality a Christian gospel tract. It appears to be based on the series 2004 $20 bill, with the gospel message around the back, and also includes some of their Web site addresses on the bill with the statement "This is NOT legal tender for all debts, public and private." After someone attempted to deposit one of the fake bills in North Carolina, the Secret Service raided The Great News Network, a sister ministry to LWP based in Denton, Texas, on June 2, 2006. The USSS told workers at GNN they would locate and seize all of the million dollar bills at LWP's Bellflower, California headquarters. Comfort has been advised by his lawyers to refuse such an action, and no warrants yet appear to have been issued for the tracts.[6][7] However, in a precautionary move LWP also produced an enlarged "Secret Service version."[1]
$1,000,000,000
In late July 2006, Comfort's ministry also developed and began printing on a similar $1,000,000,000 bill (one billion USD). It has a color scheme more closely resembling the series 2004A $10 bill, although the background resembles the series 2004 $20 bill (like their "million-dollar bill"). The tract contains a similar gospel message and features to the million-dollar tract. However, the picture is instead that of 19th century British evangelist Charles Spurgeon, whose portrait obscures the last two zeros on the upper-left corner of the "bill." [2] There have yet to be any repercussions from the Secret Service regarding this new tract.
In March 2006, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Secret Service seized 250 counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, each bearing a denomination of $1,000,000,000 (one billion USD) from a West Hollywood apartment. The suspect, Tekle Zigetta, had previously been arrested on federal charges for attempting to smuggle more than $37,000 in currency into the US following a trip to Korea in 2002.
$8,000,000,000,000
An $8,000,000,000,000 (eight trillion USD) "Federal Deficit Note" was designed in 2005 by Alexander S. Peak to acknowledge what was at that time the national debt of the United States. (The national debt has since risen to over nine trillion USD.)
Notable characteristics immediately appear on the joke bill. For example, the president at that time, George W. Bush, appears in the centre of the bill. Over the seal on the right-hand side of the bill appears the word BROKE. In place of the usual claim that a given bill is legal tender, this bill reads, "This note represents the legal tender stolen from you, the American people, and now constitutes the current federal debt, which increases every fiscal year."
TWE Dollars
In the 1970s a fake bill was dispensed in gumball machines in the denomination of "TWE DOLLARS." Much of the artwork was duplicated from the real twenty-dollar bill, including the portrait of Andrew Jackson; however, the name "Jefferson" is depicted under Jackson's picture. Also the country name was given as "The Untied States of Anemia." The twe-dollar bill has 3s in the corners.
See also
Notes
- ^ The MAD World of William M. Gaines, by Frank Jacobs, 1972; Lyle Stuart
- ^ Common Place vol. 4 no. 4, Stephen Mihm. http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-04/mihm/2.shtml
- ^ a b In anything we trust: Clerks accept $200 bills bearing Bush picture, make change. MSNBC. Accessed August 22, 2006.
- ^ Woman says she thought $1 million bill was real, AP, via MSNBC.com, March 11, 2004.
- ^ Ga. man tries to deposit fake $1M bill
- ^ http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50495
- ^ http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50497