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50 Dollars - Prop Money
| Issuer | United States |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars (50 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of President Ulysses S. Grant in intaglio-style portrait against a multicolour underprint of the American flag in red and blue. Federal Reserve seal at left, large numeral "50" in gold ink at lower right. Overprinted in red with "COPY" and in black with "MOTION PICTURE USE" and "MOVIE PROP USE ONLY"; "NOT LEGAL TENDER" inscribed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 MOVIE PROP USE ONLY 50 IN GOD WE TRUST COPY US CAPITOL 50 FIFTY DOLLARS 50 |
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Prop money occupies a specific legal niche in the U.S. — the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992 and subsequent Secret Service guidelines require that motion picture currency be printed one-sided, at a size at least 50% larger or 25% smaller than genuine currency, or bear the word "COPY" or "PROP" prominently on both sides. Notes that fail to meet these specifications have resulted in actual prosecutions, most notoriously the 2001 case involving Independent Studio Services, whose hyper-realistic bills were seized by the Secret Service despite being made for film use.
The 2009 date places this within the post-Series 2004A production window, likely mimicking the enlarged off-center portrait design introduced with the redesigned genuine $50 in 2004.