On Monday a man in Frankfurt (Hesse, Germany) found about 8 million euro in the trash - several bundles of €500 notes. He took the money to the nearest police station. Neither he nor the police officers had ever seen so much cash before. Turned out that the notes were not actually cash but "well made" play money according to the police press release. The police thanked the man, as this honest finder had apparently had no idea that his find was not a whole bunch of cash. Christian
lol -- what they call "well made play money" we call "counterfeit". I'm sure if someone made such "well made" 100 dollar notes, the Secret Service would be very, very interested
Seems that somewhere on these bills there is a note saying it is play money. Unfortunately I have not seen any info about how big these "€500's" were. There are reproductions (of euro notes) that are deemed lawful, and others that are deemed unlawful. You are on the safe side, for example, if your two-sided copies are <50% or >200%, length and width wise, of the originals. But hardly anybody, certainly not police officers, would assume that such a small or large copy could be an original. Christian
Had a friend who has since passed said he was in the a US Tank Division in World War 2 and someplace in Germany in the winter he and several members came across a train with bundles of German money. They packed their tanks with it to insulate from the bitter cold, burnt it to keep warm put it in their clothing as insulation and just generally used it as junk. Came warm weather they used it to cook their meals with and left much of it in the fields and forests as they traveled through Germany. They had a transfer of a new Officer to their core and he saw some of the remaining few notes and told them it was real....Tony said there were a few sick guys in his tank for a while...
