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Just have this instead, it's much more compact (~$1.2k in your pocket) -
It's compact, but difficult to spend. The cashier isn't gonna be able to make change for that, which is a huge part of counterfeiting. If you deposit a bunch of fake money at the bank, you'll get caught. But if you buy something cheap with a fake $100 or $20, the change from the register launders that money for you and you can deposit the real cash and say you made it selling knicknacks at a craft fair or some bullshit.
$100s and $20s are popular because they're valuable enough to be worth the effort to duplicate while still being easy to use.
To put into perspective: there’s Beluga (a type of caviar) in Switzerland that costs Fr. 1000 or over 1.2k USD, so a Fr. 1000 bill will be accepted at luxury or high end stores.
I’ve seen a video where a German woman wanted to buy flowers with that bill but was told they don’t have enough change to hand back hence why they politely refused despite the fact this bill exists and is legal tender.
A luxury or high end store is going to be doing meticulous record keeping that would make it easy to find whoever used that rare bill.
A $20 or even $100 handed to a random clerk is likely to be mixed in with the others of the same denominations at the store.
The other thing is that if you have access to a store or business that normally pays cash you can use a bunch of counterfeit bills and keep the real cash. It isn't only individuals making purchases at stores.
Yeah, I worked at a US gas station when I was younger and most $100s were real and going towards cigarettes by the carton
And the first thing I would do if I was handed that is look up the security features.
Not commonly used in daily interactions, so would draw a lot more scrutiny. Security features are usually checked more carefully for 200 CHF and 1000 CHF bills. Swiss francs are also harder to forge than other bills.
From Wikipedia:
This was about the eighth series, we're currently using the ninth, which likely has even better security features.
Also US-Dollars obviously can be used in many, many more places around the world. CHF is only really used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.