Uncle was proud owner of his own printing business. When I visited he wanted to give my branch of the family a tour of his facility with some new $1M+ printing

Uncle was proud owner of his own printing business. When I visited he wanted to give my branch of the family a tour of his facility with some new $1M+ printing machine. After showing us around, he drew in close and told us that he had been quietly doing some work for the U.S. Mint and to please keep it a bit quiet. He removes a padlock from a cabinet and pulls out a maybe 2 inch thick stack of uncut $5 bills, 2 bills wide and maybe 6 bills tall, all shrink wrapped. As anyone else would, I start trying to do the math in my head, wanting to crack a joke about fitting the printing machine back up for a “special run,” and so on. After a moment my uncle admits that it’s all a gag, only the top sheet is actual money, specially ordered uncut, with the rest of the stack underneath just being regular blank paper. In hindsight the locker was a super flimsy sheet metal cabinet.