$1 billion bill?

[GreenPartyVoter]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

http://reuters.iwon.com/article/20060315/2006-03-15T134449Z_01_N14382747_RTRIDST_0_ODD-BILLION1-DC.html

[notadmblnd]

1. Maybe this is a silly question....

but how can one counterfeit something that doesn't exist?