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[quote=ROGERINCA               ,25765]Hi Joe, I knew there was one other thing that I wanted to add to your pre-trip list and I could not think of what it was, until today, while I was at my office !!!!  Maybe others will read this too ??When you obtain your US currency, at your bank, just prior to your departure, [inspect] each bill very carefully, especially the $100 denomination !!!!  Make sure there are no alterations such as writing or drawing in pen on the bills, and maybe even rubber stamp marks that sometimes the bank will inadvertently mark up in sorting and counting.They don’t have to be brand-new crisp bills, but they should be ‘clean’.On my last trip in December, and upon my arrival at my hotel in, Guangzhou, I went to trade in some $100 bills for Yuan at the front desk.  I failed to notice that on one of the bills, someone had taken a red pen and colored in the eyes of Ben Franklin!!  The desk clerk in the hotel immediately noticed this and declined to accept it.  So, I went next door to the large bank branch to exchange it; guess what, they examined the bill carefully, as they did at the hotel, and would not take it either.Over the next two weeks in China, I tried my hardest to get rid of that bill, but to no avail !! LOL  So, Ben traveled with me from Los Angeles, across the Pacific to China, he went everywhere I went in China and then he traveled back to L.A. with me, where I finally said goodbye to him !! :) :)  [/quote]

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