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When a publicity-obsessed president decides that history is too slow and immortality too uncertain, he launches a campaign to place his portrait on a brand-new $250 bill.
The result is economic confusion, political chaos, philosophical panic, and one of the most unnecessary monetary experiments in modern history.
As the nation descends into a Punch-and-Judy spectacle of vanity, celebrity, and collective absurdity, two unlikely observers attempt to make sense of it all: Punch, professional student of human folly, and Judy, armed with a cast-iron frying pan and a dangerous commitment to reality.
The $250 Bill is a sharp, deadpan political farce about power, fame, ego, and the strange things people do when they mistake attention for greatness.
Because some people want to leave a legacy.
Others simply want better engraving.