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unusual facts about U.S. twenty-dollar bill



500 euro note

The value of the note is several times greater than many of the largest circulating notes of other major currencies, such as the United States 100 Dollar bill.

Angus Bucks

Angus Bucks, Angus Bills or AC/DC Dollars are fake, United States one-dollar bills featuring Angus Young, the lead guitarist from the Australian rock 'n' roll band AC/DC.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Heavy Metal Poisoning

The song begins with the backmasked Latin words "Annuit Cœptis, Novus Ordo Seclorum" ("God has favored our undertakings; a new order for the ages")—part of the Great Seal which encircles the pyramid on the back of the American dollar bill.

O Kuk-ryol

In June 2009, O was identified by international authorities and the United States government as a key figure in North Korea's currency counterfeiting activities, specifically with United States one hundred-dollar bills, known as Superdollars.

Penny war

Hence, in a competition between Group A and Group B, a contributor who wants Group A to win will place pennies into Group A's bucket and nickels, dimes, quarters, or dollar bills into Group B's bucket.

Refunding Certificate

The Refunding Certificate, issued only in the $10 denomination depicting Benjamin Franklin, was a type of interest-bearing banknote issued by the United States Treasury.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

Lavie Tidhar: "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"

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Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"

Twenty Bucks

Twenty Bucks is a 1993 film that follows the travels of a $20 bill from its delivery via armored car in an unnamed American city through various transactions and incidents from person to person.

United States fifty-dollar bill

1869: A new $50 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Henry Clay on the right and an allegorical figure holding a laurel branch on the left of the obverse.

In 2010, North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry introduced another bill to put Reagan's picture on the $50 bill.

Who's Minding the Mint?

The opening titles sequence - designed by the prolific Wayne Fitzgerald - displays the credits over images of US bank notes which were still in use for official transactions at the time, starting with a $1 bill and ending with a $100,000 bill.


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