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By Eileen Ambrose for The Baltimore Sun
The dog really did eat it.
Christine Dorr of Brooklyn Park unhappily discovered a corner piece of a $100 bill on the floor near her border collie’s bed earlier this year. A bank envelope containing three bills — two $100 notes and one $50 — had fallen on the floor, and 12-year-old Sayde’s guilt-ridden looks told the story.
“The dog likes to eat paper,” says Dorr, a researcher with a commercial real estate information company.
All that remained were three pieces of the $100 bills. The $50 was gone, although Dorr for days checked the “deposits” in the yard just in case.
Many people would have written off the $250 as a loss. But Dorr took the remnants to her bank, which advised her to try the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing that produces our paper currency.
Within the bureau is the little-known Mutilated Currency Division, where examiners piece together shredded, charred and soggy dollars. And if they can verify the money is authentic and determine the value, the Treasury will send the owner a check. Last year, the division processed more than 22,000 claims and redeemed about $46 million.
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