(You can actually purchase one of those out-of-circulation bills as a souvenir for about $10).
As we saw back in Hero, Jimmy's a natural born grifter ("Hey everybody, next round's on us!"), and soon it's time for a montage as Jimmy and Marco zip through a selection of classic cons involving Irish sweepstakes, African princes, rare violins, customs officers, black ink on "out of circulation" dollar bills, pretending to be Kevin Costner and so on.
It's a move that campaigns like Women on 20s have been pushing for, arguing that the larger bill has a higher circulation than the $10 bill, and that it now honors Jackson, a genocidal slaveowner. .
(Storing cash is one of the most vexing challenges confronting corrupt Chinese officials, because the largest bill in circulation is a hundred-yuan note, worth about fifteen dollars).
Hundred-dollar bills in circulation have gone up fourfold.
From 2009 to 2013 the total value of $100 bills in circulation grew by 30% in real terms.
In 2006, Spain's central bank investigated the vast number of 500-euro bills in circulation.
Central bank data showed that in November, there were more than 6bn 100-bolivar bills in circulation, 48% of all bills and coins.
Fascinating piece by Joe Keohane on the economic havoc wreaked in Argentina by a strange phenomenon: there's a shortage of coins, and of small bills, in circulation.
Indeed, calculations by The Economist in January 2005 suggested that the total stock of unredeemed miles was worth more than all the dollar bills in circulation.
And calculations by the Economist in January 2005 suggested that the total stock of unredeemed frequent flyer miles was worth more than all the dollar bills in circulation.
