The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 13, March 24, 2002, Article 13

HONEY, THE COW ATE MY WALLET, HONEST

  The USA Today web site has an interesting story about
  damaged currency redemption at the Bureau of Engraving
  and printing.  From the June 6, 2001 issue:

  "The cow story has become a legend around the Bureau of
  Engraving and Printing.

  It seems a farmer lost his wallet while he was plowing his field.
  The farmer suspected his cow ate the wallet so he had the
  beast slaughtered and sent the stomach to Washington with a
  request that the bureau retrieve the wallet and replace the
  damaged cash.

  The story has a happy ending for the farmer, if not the cow.
  Bureau examiners searched the cow's stomach, found the
  wallet and mailed the man a check for $600.  It's all in a day's
  work for the folks who not only print the nation's money but
  also are called upon to replace millions of dollars in damaged
  greenbacks each year.

  "We always tell people to send their currency in the original
  container, but that's not what we had in mind," says Lorraine
  Robinson, division manager at the bureau's office of currency
  standards, of the cow incident that happened in the 1970s."

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/06/2001-06-03-money.htm

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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