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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 792300, member: 11668"]The BEP and the FRBs strap all their currency in units of 100 notes.  Some banks have different standards that they use internally. A friend of mine used to be the vault teller at a branch of Wells Fargo...she said they strapped their $1's and $2's in units of $50, their $5's in units of $100, and everything else in units of $500.  (So a strap of $100's was five notes!)  Whenever the week's currency order came in from the FRB, it was her job to break up all the 100-note straps into straps of the sizes the bank wanted, before putting them into the vault. So I could never get notes in original BEP straps from her bank, except that she'd sometimes save me a BEP strap of $2's if she knew I was coming to get them that week....  If someone just walked in and asked for $100 in $2's, they'd get two straps of $50 each.[/QUOTE]