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

[Humberto Galiza <[e-mail]>]

So, anyway I suppose that in last case I can do a deposit to my
citibank account. I'm gonna try something to get rid of these dollar
bills (but before someone ask, no, I won't throw it away)  :)

Thanks to all that replied.

Cheers,

Galiza
Computer B.Sc. (UFBA)



2011/11/15 Joe Touch <[e-mail]>:
> 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/
>>
>