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500 Dollars Theater Prop Money
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black-printed play money note with two rectangular blue seals flanking a central bald eagle vignette; numeral "500" appears in each corner. Left seal encloses "500" and right seal bears the legend "THIS IS NOT LEGAL TENDER FOR ANY PURPOSE"; no serial numbers are present. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 PLAY MONEY · NON NEGOTIABLE |
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Western Publishing Company — better known as the house behind Golden Books — had an unlikely sideline producing prop currency for film and television production. These notes were manufactured to satisfy the Screen Actors Guild and later MPAA prop money guidelines, which required fake currency to differ visibly from legal tender in at least one dimension; the 138 × 60 mm format achieves that by undercutting standard U.S. note dimensions.
The Secret Service maintained authority to seize prop money that passed the "could deceive" threshold, so publishers like Western had commercial incentive to keep specifications clearly non-compliant.