On November 30, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a photo with a $10,000 bill. In the close-up photo, the upper left corner of the bill can be seen, showing the inscription “Hail Satan.”. In the description, the author of the post points out that this type of bill was being printed in the US and the country stopped issuing it in 1969.
The claim that the satanic inscription “Hail Satan” was printed on the bill printed by the Federal Bank of America is not true and the circulated photo is fabricated. A similar bill was indeed printed in the US, but not with this inscription.
The Federal Bank of America has been printing $10,000 bills since 1928, featuring Salmon P. Chase, United States Secretary of the Treasury during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. According to the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the note was withdrawn from use on July 14, 1969, due to “infrequent use.”
A $10,000 bill is also kept in the numismatics collection of the National Museum of American History. The authentic bill looks different from the circulated fake one. In the circulated photo, there is a hint that the inscription “Hail Satan” can be seen right above the number 1. The $10,000 bill produced by the US Federal Reserve has lines on the edge, but no such inscription.
Mentioned photo fabrication about the bill has been circulating in the past as well, and in 2017 it was verified by the American fact-checking organization Snopes.
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Georgian-language Facebook user, Lawyer Irakli Zakareishvili often publishes posts with anti-Western, anti-Ukrainian, and anti-opposition content. False information spread by Zakareishvili has been debunked by “Myth Detector” many times in the past.
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