If you found a bag of money in the woods...

[chinwag.choker]

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?

[spotweldersfriend]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@*jimmy1717* wrote:

Who? The owner of the wallet?

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From what I know of Spot, that would be the go.   

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[jimmy*part4]

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@*jimmy1717* wrote:

Who? The owner of the wallet?

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From what I know of Spot, that would be the go.   

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 HEY...Why does Polk get the kudo? It was my joke!

lol! 🙂

[acacia_pycnantha]

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@chinwag.choker wrote:

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?

and

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?

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For the more rare and collectible notes, if any, I'd probably open an ebay store and sell them there.

For the rest, i'd ask my bank if they would accept them.

[darksideofthemoon]

Well it's not legal tender now, hasn't been since the dollar came in, so it would only be good for lighting a fire.  Nuh!  Leave it where it is and walk away.

What was funny way back then was hearing of all the money the book makers had stashed so they didn't have to pay tax on it and the moment the dollar became the new money, all they had stashed was worthless... 

One day someone will find the stuff that was hidden under the floor boards, if they haven't already.  

[tommy.irene]

When i found mine it was legal tender so i kept it and moved to the Canarie Isles..

[spotweldersfriend]

Nice soft furnishings Tommy:-)