US dollar has no more value

[Richard Hakluyt]

I had heard that the 500 Euro note was the note of choice for the wealthier drug dealer 

very portable.

Isn't that because of the size of the denomination though? If the US was printing lots of $500 bills it might be different.

Exactly so. If you want to physically move $10m in cash then the $100 limit becomes difficult, 100,000 bills take up quite a lot of space. OTOH what normal person buys a beer with a 500 euro note?

[Alatriste]

Having seen the size of the 50s the 500 Euro note must be enormous.

They are only marginally bigger, actually



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes

50 Euros notes are 14 x 7.7 cm, 500 Euros notes are 16 x 8.2, i.e. 2 cm longer and 0.5 wider. The difference is enough to make sorting notes easy, but 500s are hardly blankets (they make you feel warm and fuzzy, but that's psychosomatic).