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I was arrested. In my wallet was a $100Tn bill. Law enforcement send it to the State crime lab for analysis. Lab report says it is the most sophisticated piece of currency forgery they have ever seen. It checks 8 of their 9 boxes (it's been eight years since I saw the report) which I remember some were: correct paper, correct ink, metal strip, hologram, dots.. I don't remember the rest. I can't remember which one it failed.

They finally decided not to follow-through on the prosecution for it. I guess someone eventually realized that:

a) It was a real bank note, not a forgery

b) It wasn't US currency as they had believed, but a note from Zimbabwe:

https://www.banknoteworld.com/zimbabwe-currency/100-trillion...


Wow.

I'm struggling to imagine multiple professional law enforcement staff closely examining it and not noticing that it makes no claims to be US currency.




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