Re: [82attendees] Old dollar bill not recognized at airport

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 15 November 2011 09:19 UTC

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FYI - it's still valid, however...

The exchange counter in the airport talked about the difference between 
$20 bills in different serial number ranges (A, B, C, D) - where A and B 
were not accepted, but C and D were.

Inside the US, all these MUST be accepted for debts ("legal tender"), 
e.g., if you already have a debt to be settled. However, it's entirely 
possible for a merchant to accept only dollar bills with even serial 
numbers for new purchases - i.e., it's a condition of setting up the 
debt in advance.

Even in the US there are places that won't take $100 bills for new 
purchases, but if they don't mention the exclusion when you incur the 
debt, they HAVE to take it. Same goes for large bags of pennies, FWIW.

Joe


On 11/15/2011 1:05 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
>
>
> On 11/15/2011 4:32 PM, Humberto Galiza wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> There is something that I'd like to ask for those who lives in USA:
>> the one hundred dollar bill of 1981 is still valid?
>> I'm quite surprised because I tried to exchange it at the airport, but
>> they refused. I almost ran out of Taiwanese money :(
>
>
> Both times I changed money, the rejected some of the 20s. One was a
> manual, visual process and the other was by a machine. The manual
> process rejected bills that had any writing on them or were from earlier
> than 2004.
>
> d/
>