Notetaking

One of Fernando's regulars comes to the store one afternoon. He rents a couple of movies and Fernando tells him what the price will come to. Fernando goes to fetch the movies and meanwhile the customer places a bill upon the counter.

Fernando gets back and notices that it looks a little funny. Not quite like the ten-dollar bills that he's used to. He picks it up and takes a closer look at it.

It's a silver note, not a meaningless piece of paper (well, the silver note is technically just as meaningless because its value is premised upon how much worth people put on shiny rocks, but yeah). It's dated 1930-something.

Fernando makes a sound at this point. Coincidentally, Fernando is not good at poker.

The customer overhears. “Oh, hey, could I have that back? Sorry, I didn't notice that I gave that to you.”

“Yeah, sure.” Fernando returns the certificate because he is not a morally bereft jerk. The customer instead pulls out a recent giant-faced Grant fifty.

“Yeah, this old lady paid with it today,” he says. “Cool, huh? I'm gonna check out how much it is when I get home. This could be worth a lot!”

“Could be,” says Fernando as he hands over the man's change.

“Thanks,” says the customer. “Have a good night.”

“You as well,” replies Fernando.

Turns out circulated 1934 $10 silver certificates are for the most part worth about 10% to 30% more than their face value, according to Fernando's quick lookabout on Google. Still, it would've been badass to own a piece of monetary history.