Let's say you were walking along a hiking trail with your dog and he runs off-track down a small dirt path that is really no more than beaten-down grass and you chase after him and find him digging at a plastic bag half exposed from our heavy downpours recently. Say, you pulled the bag out and inside was a clear plastic film containing hundreds of thousands of dollars of the old paper money which you count later, mainly in fifty dollar notes. Some of those big yellow notes are stained or ripped but most are in ok condition.
No 1, would you turn it in?
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No 2, if you kept it, what on earth to do with it? Do banks still exchange old paper notes? Even if you only changed a few at a time and used different banks and branches, isn't there some kind of national register and wouldn't there be an alert at a sudden influx of old paper money?
What would you do?
