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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
Just as this $10,000 bill, produced in 1918, is rare, the likeness on the front might be unfamiliar. It shows Salmon P. Chase, who served as President Lincoln's secretary of the treasury from 1861 to 1864. |
When I worked for 5/3 Bank in the early 2000's, a customer brought in some sheets of paper that were copies of several $10,000 bills. He said that his son was a missionary in the Philippines and he had met an old guy who he became friends with and the old guy showed him a large canvas bag of hundreds of these bills. The old guy said that he had found a crashed plane way up in the mountains several decades before and this bag was in the plane. He never told anyone about what he found for all of these years except for this missionary guy because he never trusted anyone. The father came into the bank because he was hoping to get advice as to what he should tell his son to do with this guy. I actually made a copy of the sheet of bills and researched them and they were legit bills. I referred him to an attorney and that was the last I heard about it. I kept researching it on my own and I believe that it was a federal government transfer of funds to another country or a bank transfer back before there were other methods of monetary transfer besides paper bills. It was pretty interesting and pretty crazy.