Earlier this year, the European Central Bank stopped all production of the 500 euro note. The action came after years of concern from academics,multinational police agencies, and EU finance ministers: The 500 euro, they alleged, had grown far too popular in the funding and facilitation of drugtrafficking, human smuggling, and terrorism. Because of its illicit reputation-and because "many know what it looks like" but "few have ever seen one"-theEuropean media ominously dubbed the note "the Bin Laden."

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