In article , msb@vex.net (Mark
Brader) wrote:

> ObRail: a few years ago in Switzerland I had the pleasure of buying
> a train ticket that cost something like 130 francs and paying for it
> by inserting cash into the ticket machine *including a 100-franc note,
> worth over 40 pounds*.  The 200-franc denomination was in common use
> as well, and I daresay the machine would have accepted that too if my
> ticket had been expensive enough.

I've handled a SFr 1000 note more than once.

-- 
Colin Rosenstiel