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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 146054, member: 1101&quot;]Well, my first was Max Schmeling, German boxer who beat Joe Louis and was World Heavywieght Champion in the 1930s.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also had bills signed by Robert Ballard (discovered the Titanic), some old movie and TV stars (Rose Marie of &quot;The Dick Van Dyke show&quot;, Larry Storch from &quot;F Troop&quot;, Artie Johnson from &quot;Laugh In&quot;, Patricia Neal), some old baseball stars (Buck O&#039;Neil from the Negro Leagues Bobby Doerr from the Boston Red Sox and Baseball Hall of Fame), Charles Lindberg (not the pilot) who was one of the soldiers who raised the U.S. flag in Iwo Jima in WWII, and some Congressional Medal of Honor winners.&nbsp; Also there were some whose name is not familiar but whose accomplishments are, such as early NASA people, the British engineer who came up with the idea that saved the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Itay from falling over, and the guy who designed the 50-star Amercian flag after Alaska and Hawaii were made states.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was living in Germany when I staretd this, so the dollars made their way into circulation when I was home in the Boston area on vacation or when I paid for small eBay purchases by mail (sent to all parts of the US). </p><p><br /></p><p>I have four or five sets of signed bills waiting to be completed by stamping the celebrity&#039;s name in the margin (I usually get anywhere from 4 to 8 bills signed by each person), and then those will be spent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I save one of each for myself and spend the rest, and somewhere I do have one last Schmeling to spend.&nbsp; That is my sentimental favorite, as he was in his late 90s when he signed them and he passed away a few years ago.&nbsp; That will be a nice memento for whoever gets it in change and recognizes the name.&nbsp; I suppose I could sell it on eBay at this point, but I absolutely refuse to sell or profit from these as they were signed as a favor by the celebrity with the understanding that I would spend them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure where they end up, but the idea was that maybe someone would take a moment to learn something about the person who signed, or maybe a kid would take it to school for show and tell and the others could learn something new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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