I knew Prop Movie Money was the go-to site for fake United States currency, but I assumed it was all modern bills. Imagine my surprise when I discovered they also have a complete selection of cash from the 1920s. Just the thing for classic-era Mythos and pulp gaming. At $24.99 for 100 bills it's probably cheaper to buy from them than print your own.
While it's not a huge issue, I don't think their bills are accurately sized. Up until 1929, the Treasury, National Banks, and Federal Reserve issued "large format" notes measuring 7.37 inches by 3.12 inches. After that, they used our modern measurements of 6.14 by 2.61 inches.
I was also surprised to see Prop Movie Money had $2 bills in their 1920s collection. Turns out they were a thing in 1917 and 1918 before returning for a run in 1928. After that they wouldn't return until 1953.
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The Prop Movie Money actually looks real nice on the table props when the players investigators find a stash of money. I ordered a set of each of the $1, $5, and $10 bills when the HPLHS initially released the Arkham Investigators Wallet. I am currently putting a copy of each of the bills in to the packet of fun props (filled out and printed from the various HPLHS prop document collections) for a group of my Coworkers that want me to run Call of Cthulhu games for them (and being the awesome Keeper that I am I also bought each of them a copy of the Investigators Handbook in addition to all the prop documents I have made for each of their initial characters such as Drivers licenses, Passports, Bank Savings Books, Pistol Permits, Press Passes, Library Cards, etc...)
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