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50 Dollars Movie Prop Money
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 FIFTY 50 THIS NOTE IS NOT VALID. IT IS FOR USE IN MOTION PICTURES ONLY AND IS NON- NEGOTIABLE. ITS USE FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE WILL BE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. FIFTY SERIES 1942 H 50 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 MOTION PICTURE USE ONLY 50 50 FIFTY 50 |
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| Comments |
Prop currency made for wartime Hollywood productions occupies a strange niche — neither collectible banknote nor worthless scrap. The 1942 date places this squarely in the period when the U.S. Treasury was actively pressuring studios to ensure prop money could not pass as genuine, though enforcement was inconsistent and the line between "realistic enough for film" and "passable at a corner store" was genuinely blurry during the early 1940s.
Bailey and Thomas as signatories are almost certainly fictional officer names chosen to mimic Treasury convention without infringing on it.