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* At the beginning of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s pre-''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Strata]]'', protagonist Kin Arad is uninterested in Jago Jalo's claims of an uncharted world where thought becomes matter, until he takes out a couple hundred thousand years worth of the life-extension tickets that function as the setting's currency and casually tosses them all into a trash disintegrator.
* In [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]’s ''[[The Idiot]]'', Natasya Filipponva heard that Gavrila Ardalionovich would “crawl to Vassilievsky Island for three roubles”. She tests Gavrila by throwing a packet of ten thousand roubles into a fire, and telling him that if he reaches in with his bare hands, he can keep whatever he grabs.
* Lazarus Long does this to a big bill in [[Time Enough for Love]] after his bank gets nationalized. He's trying to teach the mayor that money is a fiction and he shouldn't get too attached to the notes themselves. Lazarus then comments that that's what he usually does when the safe starts to get too full. Then he writes down the serial number so he can keep track of the currency in the system. This more than anything else convinces the mayor that he has no idea how an economy works.
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