Originally Posted by
walterj
I managed to find a few clean, crisp Ben Franklin notes, all from 2006 - I had to visit three banks, searched through a lot of tatty notes and most are from 2003 - the year that no one outside of the US will accept. From searching the web, I have the impression that there are a lot of counterfeit 2003 notes out there.
2003 and some other prior years were indeed heavily counterfeited and passed outside the USA, especially in Asia. If you have time though, you can sort of put an "order" in and if you give the bank a couple of days, they can round up some more 100's for you.
Longshot: If you live near a casino, usually they have nicest, crispest, cleanest 100's to hand out, and they'll usually cash a check. I'm not suggesting that you need to play.
