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Volume 9, Issue 25 - Feature #2757

1907 - New State Notes

In the days before a lot of folks knew what paper money looked like, there were some dishonest folks who would cut a corner number off some larger denomination bills and glue four of these "corners" to a one or two dollar bill, thus making it appear to be the larger denomination, and then present it to an unsuspecting clerk in a store, get the change and leave before the deception was noticed. That's what they meant by "raising" the bill.

Roy Kendrick - 2007-06-24 01:32:37

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