The Great Money Pile

We had inherited lots of furniture and related household stuff from a cousin about 10 year ago. I know I’ve told the story of getting it here from a New York City high rise, and all the drama involved with the border crossing.

We’ve used it all for these many years and the other day I looked into a box, long forgotten, which held lots of souvenir change, money left over from various exotic trips around the world and saved. I did have it all checked out recently and it is basically worthless unless you happen to be in the country and they haven’t moved to the Euro etc. I could sell it by the pound, and I did. No silver or gold present there.

However, while in the big box, I discovered all these bills. You can see the lot! I knew it was either a great discovery or a new pile of Monopoly Money.

I rushed over to the International Currency Exchange, as they promised me they’d go through it and let me know. They were very kind and spent time looking, and admitted they never seen most of these bills but sadly, they were either out of circulation or in countries where there was now the Euro.

There was one good bill, which brought me $12.50 and a lot of laughs with the rest of the pile.

Someone will use these bills for a great collage I hope and I will honor all reasonable requests. They could become a table top. 

My dreams of the great discovery dried up so very quickly…..but I still can collect $200 passing Go.