• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    One gram of X Dollar notes is worth X Dollar, as a Dollar note weighs one gram.

    One gram of gold is somewhere close to 150 Dollar.

    So with 100 Dollar or smaller notes I would take the gold, but there are also 500, 1000, 5000, and 10000 Dollar notes…

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      3 hours ago

      First off, it feels fully wrong to hear about “US notes” instead of bills. I know they are notes, but it feels like hearing someone say exclamation mark instead of point or vice versa. One feels natural to some people, the other for others. Just feels so weird.

      Also, depending on how you’re obtaining these 500kg of US notes, anything above 100 dollar bills is basically just for bank transfers and you’ll have a helluva time using it for anything if it wasn’t obtained legally. They’re tracked pretty well. The vast majority of Americans don’t even know they exist, I’d say, and have surely never seen one.

      ETA: I’m mistaken! Apparently those larger bills were legal tender, just rare. It’s the 100k gold certificate that was only for bank transfers