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Those $10,000 bills are still legal tender

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Even though they haven't been freshly printed since World War II, the government technically still accepts them. However, paying your local property taxes with one is mathematically moronic since private collectors will happily pay triple the facial value.

Those $10,000 bills are still legal tender
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