Commemorative $5,000 Trump Bucks Bills Review
Published on October 18, the online post has now gone viral receiving nearly 40,000 upvotes and over 3700 comments. The post reads as follows
The bill is most definitely a fake and whether the claim that it is gold can be heavily contested. In the US, there is no bill denomination that is $5000 as well as any with the former president's face on it.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, there are an estimated $70 million worth of counterfeit notes in circulation, with approximately 1 counterfeit note in circulation for every 10,000 notes of real currency, up to a limit of $200 million, or real banknotes.
One counterfeit note for every 4,000 notes. However, these figures are based on annual counterfeit seizure rates, and the actual counterfeit inventory is unknown, as some transactions have seen counterfeit notes successfully circulated.
A very high quality counterfeit $100 bill, the Superdollar is one of the most popular counterfeit US dollar bills and was still in production after 2007. The
Congressional Research Service conducted an investigation and concluded by accusing North Korea of being responsible for its production, but North Korea denied any involvement with the Superdollar. However, this is definitely not a Superdollar.
What do you think? Do you believe that this note could be legal tender? If so, why? Don't forget to leave a like and share this article with your friends and family.
On Oct. 18, 2022, a Reddit user named u/alyrenna123 posted, "I work at a bank. A couple just came in wanting to cash this and claimed it was real gold and legal tender." The post, reportedly made by a Georgia bank employee, showed a plastic, gold-colored $5,000 bill that displayed the text "GOLD99999999" and bore the image of former U.S. President Donald Trump. The post has since been removed.
Readers emailed us to ask if this story was true. We established contact with u/alyrenna123, who provided evidence to us via email that confirmed employment at a bank, but declined to reveal the name of the bank or the city.
The person did point to additional details that some readers might believe to be fairly convincing. However, in the absence of any definitive video or documentary evidence that would show that the interaction in the bank really happened, we have rated this claim as "Unproven."
We confirmed with the Reddit user that this interaction did not occur at a Bank of America branch location. Rather, the couple purportedly mentioned the bank name because they were informed by an unknown person who sold them the bill that Bank of America would cash it. This led them to wonder why the bank in the story would also not accept the fake, plastic, and gold-colored, commemorative bill.
"After we refused to accept the money, the customer stated that Bank of America will accept [it], so why couldn't we," u/alyrenna123 told us. "We told him ok, he's welcome to go there if he'd like, but that he's being scammed and they would tell him the same thing we are. After they left, my supervisor said that Bank of America is a lot more strict than we are and would tell him absolutely not."
Why Was the Post Removed?
The Reddit post was deleted within 24 hours by u/alyrenna123. By that point, it showed a score of more than 150,000 points. For any readers who aren't familiar with how
Reddit works, this number of points indicated that it was an extremely popular post among the website's users. It likely appeared on the front page of the website for a number of hours.
"I honestly didn't expect that post to blow up the way it did. I posted it for shits and giggles and it hit 150k in 12 hours and I freaked out," u/alyrenna123 told us during our chat. "
I kept getting death threats and people saying they would 'dox' me. My supervisor saw the post, and while I did not post anything worthy of being punished, [said] it would be in my best interest to take it down."
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