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The Money Fixers

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The Money Fixers

Inside the curious world of the «Mutilated Currency Division». I wasn’t aware of this: You can send in destroyed money (meaning: burned, shredded, digested by a cow, even) and if those people can establish it’s real money, you are reimbursed.


From Weekly Filet #239, in July 2017. More on:

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