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If you are a regular or semi-regular user of cash in the U.S., how often do you see pre-1996 "small face" $20/50/100 bills?
I hit the ATM recently and got $200, and 8 of the bills were 1990-1995 "small face" $20 bills. That's more of those bills than I've seen combined in the last 5 years. I wonder if someone with a huge stash of older cash finally turned it in (or passed away) and a bunch ended up in that ATM cassette.
I use a fair amount of cash as I make regular purchases that give a discount for it (or more accurately charge a fee for using a card of some sort, but its presented as a cash discount to placate the public.) I've not seen the old bills in a long time. My sister is a district manager for a bank chain and she says the machines they use to intake cash would sort those for return to the treasury for disposal a decade ago.
edit - ive got about 500 in 20s on me now and the oldest one is from 2021.
Very interesting. I wonder if different bank chains have varying approaches. This is not the first time I've gotten old bills from Chase, but this was by far the largest quantity of them (I once got a Nixon-era $20, which I saved, of course, even though it has no extra value).
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