The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 25, June 20, 2003, Article 15

THE EIGHTEEN-DOLLAR BILL

  Bill Spengler of Colorado Springs writes: "Your amusing
  piece in last Sunday's E-Sylum on the 18-cent coin reminded
  me of the apocryphal yarn about the 18-dollar bill.  It seems
  that a notorious counterfeiter of U.S.currency boasted that
  he could pass anything he fabricated, so his friends bet he
  couldn't make and pass an 18-dollar bill.  So he made one
  and took it to a remote country store in the back woods of
  West Virginia.  There he found a group of local yokels
  gathered around the stove.  "What can we do for you
  stranger?", the shopkeeper asked.  "I wonder if you could
  change this 18-dollar bill for me", he said.  After examining
  it closely the shopkeeper replied slyly, "Sure, I can do that
  for you.  How would you like it, two nines or three sixes?"
  The counterfeiter left in a hurry."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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