That is Thomas Jefferson, who is on is on the two-dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin is on the 100-dollar bill. I have no idea what someone was up to in making this altered bill, though.
Would a counterfeiter ever make a "100" that crude, or put Jefferson on a hundred-dollar bill? Or do you think who ever made it thought it could be passed to someone who was unlikely to have ever seen a $100 bill? Odd thing!
Those days in 1928 or 1930s, the 100$ were much bigger money, than nowadays, therefor some poor people would have never seen the genuine banknote, because just never had it on hand! And the fact of the circulation simultaneously many different modifications of US dollars, would allow abusers to produce such primitive forgery from the genuine banknote. Or it could have been tricked against the arriving foreigners, who do not really know, how, exactly the $100 bill must look like and who's portrait does it have on it...
That makes sense. Even today $100 bills are not all that common.
Anyhow, I would say that it cannot be sold on eBay because it is still a counterfeit bill, as crude as it is.
For anyone not familiar with him, it took the Secret Service a long time to track down this counterfeiter, because he did only one-dollar bills and passed them only occasionally and sparingly:
This bill dates from the late 40's or early 50's. As noted by remodelt Snyder was Sec of treasury from 1946-1953 and Clarke was the treasurer from June 1949-1953.
You theory sounds plausible. If you would have asked me who was on the $100.00 bill or the $2.00 bill I would have to think real hard. I seldom have either in my wallet.
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