I am in Brisbane and have two $100 US dollar bills from the 1985 series. I went to money exchanges and banks, but no one is accepting it. Any idea where I can change them in Australia and, in particular, the Queensland area?
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I received from my Dad 150 American Dollars about 12 years ago. I never have thought to change this money but a few days I tried change it in a currency exchange in Sydney and the guy didn't change it because the series are old.     What do I have to do to change this money?
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I looked at , but it didn't mention a third variation I've been hearing more often, recently.  Even on the Australian national broadcaster, the ABC, I've heard statements by reporters like      The cost was estimated to be between A to B dollars.   Have the rules of grammar changed, or is this as ungrammatical as I think it is?
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I've only been able to trace it back to Asimov's "Foundation" series, first started in 1942. Anyone know if this trend of currency naming goes back any further?
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I saw  recently where a man withdrew $600,000 USD in cash from his bank.  I'm sure many folks here would advise against this move for obvious (and perhaps not-so-obvious) reasons.   My question: suppose you did this and then, some months later, changed your mind and wanted to re-deposit with a bank.  I assume the gent cannot simply walk into a bank with $600,000 USD and deposit it, right?  Wouldn't money-laundering alarms be raised?  Wouldn't the IRS like to know where the money came from?
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Is it possible to deposit a check issued by a foreign bank in a US bank?  To be specific, I would like to know if I can deposit a check issued by a bank in India in INR in my bank in US. I was able to do the reverse, that is, cash a USD check from BofA in my bank in India.
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I received a check personally written to me from a family member.  The family member that wrote &amp; sent me the check wrote where you write out the amount of what the check is suppose to be for, in words, "Fifty Dollars-------00/00".  Then, in the box above where you write the amount with numbers, they wrote "25.00".  They signed the check and mailed it to me to cash.  What should I do?
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You have one penny, one nickel, one dime, and one quarter. How many different amounts of money can you make using one or more of these coins? Please help me! I'm having trouble! I'm having trouble I know the obvious ones like $5,10,25,1,15,26,36,16,\ldots$ Help? And I need to know the coin combinations too. I found $15$ different ones! Anyone who can find more??
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In brief, I am projecting out a budget for a personal construction project I am having done, and the numbers are very tight.  I have some buffer built in, but if I exceed the buffer amount and my cash flow is restricted (e.g. my clients pay late, etc.), I will need some sort of short term bridge loan.  This is about six month down the road, but I am trying to understand my options before wading in.  From  it sounds like I can withdraw money ostensibly for the purpose of rolling the money into a new account, but can return the money within 60 days with no penalty.  Am I understanding this correctly?  Note that I would not consider this unless I feel 100% confident that I could pay the money back within the 60 days.  Given all of this, am I understanding the rollover rules correctly?  Any other pitfalls I would need to be concerned about?
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I really appreciate your quick response on this and to have full review on my refusal decision.. like u said there must be some para missing i checked the letter again, my question too the letter is all the same just i missed the point he noted ""furthermore there are large transfer and cash deposits which are 6 times your claimed salary (amount) on the 23/02/2015 and on the 15/05/2015 a cash deposit for (1,006)pounds" so the small amount of deposit were the available cash we just deposit this to our saving account as we have two accounts how to verify this? what reason should be mentioned to them that we did'not present the supported documents to declare it.  As per your review we have all of the evidences ( Death Certificate, the Cheque receipt Voucher, Copy ob Bank Cheque from the Company, Power of Attorney to my husband by his legal guardian as a trustee of what his father left, and transfer permission from the ministry that he can hold his mother and sister sponsorship as they are currently living with us in KSA) are with us in Arabic form and we translated in English with the stamp of certified translator.. do we need at attest this from chamber of commerce?  "But it would be advisable to request a different ECO for your next application. They will do this without prejudice if you ask them to; plus an ECM will review the decision if it is adverse to you." how to claim for this in our future application if u can it would b very helpful for us.  the booking we submitted was ticket bookings it was mention in the guidance of required documents. for future application all of the personal circumstances are the same except the amount for the cost of trip we mentioned earlier my husband by mistakenly mentioned the whole family trip cost including (Plane ticket, living expenses and the money) he have for this trip instead of his personally. can we change it in each application the cost belongs to personally, It may make a wild change as compare to previous application. does it going to effect on the decision for the future application. We already submitted Invitation letter (original) from the family members in UK. Do we submit this time the copy of invitation letter because they already have the original one.
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I was just going through old things and found a Wachovia account opened for me by my aunt - specifically, I found the checkbook and transaction record. The transaction book is dated April xx, 1998 and has one record in it: "Happy Birthday", $50 deposit, $50 balance.  I vaguely remember having discovered this a few years ago, calling Wachovia, and confusing the operator on the phone with an account number which was not their usual format - she couldn't even type it into the computer, it was too short or something. She supposed that they changed their account number scheme some years in the past. I must have just put it away, and now I rediscovered it and want to give it another shot.  I suppose I will call Wachovia and try again, but is there anything else I can do to try and access this account? I don't know anything about the savings account (interest rate, etc.), but I have this fantastical thought that maybe the $50 has grown into a hefty chunk of money by collecting interest over these 13 years it's just been sitting there. Or maybe it was emptied and closed due to some stupid bank fees. Either way, I'd like to know what happened to it.  Is there any special course of action for this kind of thing?  Also, the address on the account is of course WAY old. I was 8 years old at the time (which is why I didn't know what to do with this, I just put it in a drawer with the rest of my stuff) and I've moved several times since then. I guess the chances of being able to get anything from this are very slim, but I want to pursue it anyway.
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I just read a question and answer about tipping housekeeping daily (). But how should I physically give them the money? Obviously if I see them I can hand them the money but if I'm out for the day?   I guess I leave cash somewhere obvious, should I leave a note as well? What if it's a non-English speaking country (I'm not sure if you'd be expected to tip there, but maybe you want to). Is there some customary place to leave the tip?   As someone brought up in a generally non-tipping country I often have to work out how to tip, but in general you can just keep an eye on what everyone else does. Not in this case.
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Back in December 2013, I paid the insurance for a "friend's" business on my credit card so that it wouldn't get canceled.  The amount was $1,700+ but before I did, I requested a post-dated check for repayment.  I received 3 separate checks for $575 each dated 2/1/13, 3/1/13 and 4/1/13.  The first problem is that they were all immediately stale checks because the year should have been 2014 but I'm sure it was an honest mistake.  Anyway, when those dates had passed, I inquired about cashing them as I didn't want them to bounce and incur more expenses for bounced checks (unfortunately, they are drawn on a bank that does not have any offices near me).  I kept getting promises of dates that I would be able to cash ONE OF THEM but that still hasn't panned out.  I'm thinking now I should just deposit all 3 and let them bounce if they're going to just so I have something to start legal action with.  However, I'm not sure what to do about the stale date.  Can you offer any advice for this Central NY loan-not-getting-repaid fool?
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Where can I get more favourable exchange rate, in general?changing baht to Canadian dollars in Thailand or Canada or make a bank transfer to my Canadian account
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I've always said "$100 were taken" not "$100 was taken" because I thought $100 is plural. Could you explain why "was" not "were"? Any other helpful notes about the issue would be appreciated.     Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account
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I'm currently living overseas in Europe.  I work as a consultant for a US based company which pays me US dollars deposited to my US bank account.  It's getting to be pretty expensive when I withdraw money from the ATM (around $25 USD), or if I wire money from the US bank (Bank of America) to my account here ($45 USD).  Anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer money from my US account by paying less fees?  Any bank that has better deals, any services I can use, like online services?
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Recently my wife and I traveled to Italy and before we left we got about 85% of our money in travelers checks and the other 15% we carried on in cash. When we arrived there, no one would take our travelers checks and many places did not accept credit cards. Eventually, we found some currency exchange places that would take the travelers checks and give us Euro's, but at a 7-15% fee, which was not really a very fun surprise.   While I was under the impression that it is safer to use travelers checks, it seems that they were not really accepted (the usual explanation being fraud). So the question is, is it best to just exchange your currency at home and carry all of it with you when you travel or are there other alternatives to carrying cash that are safer and cost effective?
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That might sound a bit silly to people from USA but is it really that common to use checks in America?  I am from Austria and here (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) checks play practically no role in daily life. I haven't actually held a single check in my hands in my entire life.  So is it really common to get a paycheck in the sense that you get a piece of paper?  It would be nice if someone could explain the practice of "money handling" in America a little bit because I think it's really interesting how different cultures can be regarding money.   And I also have had the experience that most people believe that how it's done here, it's done in the whole world. :)  Edit:   I think it would only be fair if I just explain briefly how it is handled here. Maybe it's interesting to other people.  You usually have an account at your bank. Your payment as an employee is deposited there once a month. From there you can transfer money to other accounts. So instead of paying a bill by sending a check to the one getting the money you will send a form to your bank (or more commonly you will just go to the bank) ordering them to transfer money to the account of the other person.  Bills (esp. regular ones) are most often payed by issuing an "Einzugsermächtigung" (collection authorisation) and the companies will more or less just "take" the money from your account.  Today most people with a computer issue the transfer of money through the internet.