Here's a Legacies blooper - Printable Version

Here's a Legacies blooper - Printable Version

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Here's a Legacies blooper - jimbow8 - 09-13-2006

Paige Wrote:There was the same thing in Criss Cross when Jack got paid in thousand dollar bills. At the time, I just chalked it up to a metaphore or something.

PS
Since then, I've been work in a bank, and you'd be suprised how many people still ask for their money in throusand dollar bills.

Aren't these type of things one of the reasons for an editor?

Here's a Legacies blooper - Scott Miller - 09-13-2006

Apparently none of you play Monopoly. They got $1,000 bills and bigger.

Here's a Legacies blooper - webby - 09-13-2006

According to the Federal Reserve's web site (http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqcur.htm#11):

[INDENT]"On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. These notes are legal tender and may be found in circulation today; however, most are probably in the hands of collectors."[/INDENT]

So while the use of $1000 bills is unusual, it's still perfectly legitimate. Of course, Jack knows currency so he would be well aware of this. Wink

Here's a Legacies blooper - jimbow8 - 09-13-2006

webby Wrote:According to the Federal Reserve's web site (http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqcur.htm#11):

[INDENT]"On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. These notes are legal tender and may be found in circulation today; however, most are probably in the hands of collectors."[/INDENT]

So while the use of $1000 bills is unusual, it's still perfectly legitimate. Of course, Jack knows currency so he would be well aware of this.

Yes, he knows that they'd stick out like a sore thumb and probably raise red flags.

Here's a Legacies blooper - webby - 09-13-2006

jimbow8 Wrote:Yes, he knows that they'd stick out like a sore thumb and probably raise red flags.

Think so? How long was it before any of us noticed? :p

As Paige noted earlier in this thread:

Paige Wrote:I've been work in a bank, and you'd be suprised how many people still ask for their money in throusand dollar bills.

Here's a Legacies blooper - jimbow8 - 09-13-2006

webby Wrote:Think so? How long was it before any of us noticed? :p

As Paige noted earlier in this thread:

I DID know that there were no $1000 bills in circulation. I did NOT catch it when I just reread Legacies. I WOULD be VERY wary of taking them, probably wouldn't take them. It's also one thing to read it in a novel and another thing for it to happen in real life (obviously! Wink

).

Did Paige mention how many times she has agreed and given any out?

Paige, if a person came into a bank with 15 one thousand dollar bills, is the teller required to at the very least contact a manager?

Here's a Legacies blooper - Blake - 09-13-2006

Scott Miller Wrote:Apparently none of you play Monopoly. They got $1,000 bills and bigger.

Monopoly is also a tool of the Otherness.

Blake

Here's a Legacies blooper - Dr. Trilobite - 09-13-2006

In the 11th novel, Jack has to stop the Dormentalists from getting Park Place.

Here's a Legacies blooper - KRW - 09-13-2006

fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]I had no idea. WHen I was growing up I heard talk of thousand-dollar bills (even ten-thousand-dollar bills). Never knew they'd been withdrawn.[/SIZE]

Nor I! My finances are such that when I make a withdrawl, a hundred is the biggest bill I can look forward to. (sigh) Big Grin

Here's a Legacies blooper - Paige - 09-13-2006

jimbow8 Wrote:Paige, if a person came into a bank with 15 one thousand dollar bills, is the teller required to at the very least contact a manager?

Without a doubt. A teller is required to contact a supervisor or at the very least another more experienced teller if he or she even has an *inkling* of a problem.