Eli5: sincerely just out of curiosity, if a bank robber is caught after a dye pack explodes and the money is returned, what do they do with the money? Is it cleaned or do they throw it away?

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Edit: thank you for all your helpful responses! My curiosity is sated!

In: Economics

Answer 1

Banks can send money back to the treasury and have the bills replaced with new ones.

You can too. If you had a stash of bills and they were burned in a fire. As long as they can find 51% off the bill and the serial number, they’ll replace it

Small edit, fire or other damage, water, critters, Whatever. Remember seeing on a show somewhere people sitting in a room basically doing jigsaw puzzles with a pile of water rotted bills.