Originally Posted by metalmuncher
Originally Posted by klay
As someone who deals with cash often, I don't care who is on it. We need larger bills. It's stupid to stop at $100. It should be $500 bills.

Hell, we had $500. bills up until a few years ago.

Yup, those were mostly for bank to bank transfers. The $100 bill was created as the max regular denomination to prevent money laundering. The idea was that large money laundering would be difficult if people had to carry around suitcases of cash to sneak it around. So people figured out how to tote large suitcases of cash around and did it anyway.


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