What I found most interesting about Indians and their way with money,
and I don´t know if this rule is still in effect, but at least it was in the nineties,
was this: a rupee bill could have a really big hole in the middle,
and I guess those holes came into existence by the habit of stapling them notes together at the bank,
and nobody cared, everybody would accept such a damaged bill,
but if there was the tiniest tear starting from the edge of a bill, nobody would accept it,
at least with high value notes, starting from fifties and hundreds,
and let´s not forget in those good old days,
when there was no McDonalds and no Coca Cola in India,
you could get a chai for one rupiah, so a hundred rupee bill had some value.
So the game then was to pass on those bills to some ignorant tourist. 😉