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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 926629, member: 66"]Due to the Treasury's denial of the use of real money in movies or stage production the prop houses produced and stockpiled prop money for such use.  The prop money only resemble real money superficially.  Since it usually was printed in black and white and didn't actually copy the currency it is not considered to be counterfiet and is perfectly legal.  There is even a book that catalogs prop money.  And of course prop money is still used in movies where a large amount of "cash" is needed, and often just  for security reasons unless a close up will show the money.  They used prop currency in the movie Titanic, but a genuine 1912 barber dime.  In the movie Pearl Harbor I'm fairly sure they used prop currency in the battleship boxing scene, but they made a mistake.  In the theater version they used Hawaii overprinted notes for the scene.  Those were not issued until a couple months AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack.  In the version released on DVD they corrected that and the visible notes are no longer overprints.[/QUOTE]