I don’t get many questions about fake $3 bills but at least once a month I hear from someone who’s hopping up and down because they just found a “1 million dollar” bill. Then I’m the bad guy when I tell them you can buy all you want in a novelty shop. It’s almost at the point where I’d be in favor of requiring these fakes to have a disclaimer in inch-high letters on both sides, because too many people know so little about currency that they act like fools when they find one. Remember how a few years ago all sorts of people in San Francisco got all worked up about some guy handing out “rare 1865 Washington quarters”? There were stories in newspapers and on TV, and it took nearly a WEEK before any of the media outlets did a simple fact-check.

Of course given how politics are being reported today, I guess I shouldn’t be the least bit surprised that something as simple as a quarter would get screwed up.