Which, of course, begs the question of where they got the $500 bills. William McKinley appeared on $500 bills issued in 1929, but Richard Nixon halted their circulation by executive order in 1969 in an effort to combat organized crime (like, say, the large scale monopolization of real estate–what could be more criminal than that?). Monopoly with real currency. By Peter GoddardSpecial to the Star. 2, 2009 timer 4 min. If there's one core event at Nuit Blanche, a single signifying gesture indicating the. This article is about the concept and use of money in the game rules. For information on the actual medium of exchange, see: Monopoly Dollar Monopoly Money (or Munny) is what players use to buy properties, construct buildings, and pay rents, fines, or taxes. Properties can be Mortgaged in order to borrow money from The Bank. The distribution of cash in the U.S. Version has changed with the.

According to a Swedish news website called The Local, at a bank in Denmark, a women successfully exchanged Monopoly money for actual Danish currency. She gave the teller two Monopoly bills and received the equivalent of $240. Awesome.

I’m sure that everyone has thought of attempting this feat. I know I have… many times. In high school, I actually used to carry a few Monopoly dollars in my wallet, just in case. I mean, you never know if a store will accept a $500 Monopoly bill instead of a $1 US currency bill. That’s an extra $499 in profit the store could make. So, it would be crazy for store to accept US currency instead of Monopoly money. Absolutely crazy.

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Anyway, back to the article, the next day, the 61-year old lady attempted to pull off the scam a second time. This time, she was arrested. Ha. Dumb move. Everyone knows that you scam each bank only once. Bank get wise, quickly. Especially at the end of the day when the bank manager inevitably realizes that there’s Monopoly money in one of the registers.

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I think it’s time to go fill my wallet with Monopoly money. Which versions look the most real? I’ve got the regular edition, the Corvette edition, the Millennium edition, and the Junior edition. I guess I’ll try them all. So, look for a subsequent update about the effectiveness of the different versions of Monopoly money, or an actual picture of me in prison for getting arrested for fraud. Either way, it should be a great post.

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Here’s a link to the original article: Woman exchanges Monopoly Money for Danish Kroner.

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