# What's the largest check (cheque) you've ever cashed or deposited? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851 "2003-08-13T06:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/1 "2003-08-13T06:26:24Z")
Saw [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117509) while searching for topics related to handwriting. Of course, it naturally led me to wonder, “what’s the largest cheque (check) you’ve ever cashed (or deposited)?” The largest you’ve ever seen cashed would also be quite appropriate. These would be checks (cheques) made out to a person rather than a business-related cheque (check), I think. As far as I know, the largest check (cheque) I’ve ever received was for $5,000, which came from my Ma when I was in some financial difficulty. The largest I’ve ever seen cashed was by a colleague who earned a commission cheque (check) on the sale of a large apartment building. It was for about $400,000. ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/2 "2003-08-13T06:59:49Z")
I’ve received one for 10,000$. ( a gift). I’ve written one for 18,500$. ( for a car) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/3 "2003-08-13T07:06:19Z")
But, **Thaumaturge** , were they checks (cheques) or cheques (checks)? ---
**Author:** ![Angelic1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@Angelic1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angelic1)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/4 "2003-08-13T07:18:03Z")
Only once have I ever banked a large cheque and it was for $22,750.00 it hit the bank stayed there for 7 days and then came out again to pay the deposit on our house 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/5 "2003-08-13T08:13:24Z")
I withdrew a check for $60,000+ once from my bank account, to hand over to the realtor as part of a down payment for a house… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/6 "2003-08-13T08:23:06Z")
$14,500 when I refinanced my car. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/7 "2003-08-13T10:05:55Z")
The largest item I’ve ever cashed - technically it wasn’t a check (or a cheque), but a debit, that totaled $18,000, but that didn’t belong to me, it was for the store I managed and the store up the road that I was covering for as manager while that manager was on vacation. Either way, I walked out of the bank with $18,000 in cash. Personally, the largest check I’ve ever cashed was for $1500, the largest I’ve ever deposited was around $5000. ---
**Author:** ![GuyMontag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@GuyMontag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyMontag)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/8 "2003-08-13T11:46:21Z")
Does the check have to belong to you? If not, I’ve deposited a check for $250,000.00 into my boss’s family savings account–it was his quarterly dividend from one of his companies. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/9 "2003-08-13T13:11:42Z")
Deposited? $9,999 (10k dollar deposits are tracked). Written? $36,000 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/10 "2003-08-13T14:52:57Z")
Deposited, about $8K a couple of times. Written, $16.8K for my current car. Felt like Rockefeller (if Rockefeller were in the market for a Subaru). ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/11 "2003-08-13T15:05:13Z")
Deposited a check for $32,000, then turn around and had wrote a check for $40,000. A house purchase. Last week I went to the ATM in my building and someone had left an ATM receipt on top of the machine. They had withdrawn $100. Their new balance was in excess of $350,000. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/12 "2003-08-13T15:11:59Z")
Y’spose they left it there on purpose? Impress people and all that, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/13 "2003-08-13T15:24:26Z")
You should have grabbed that 350K receipt and used it for “scrap” next time you write your number down for some hot chick. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/14 "2003-08-13T15:36:19Z")
I had a temp job once at a Trust company in downtown Boston. My job was to deposit checks into the various trusts and send them to the bank. I deposited many, many checks in excess of $50,000 into the trusts. One check really stood out though. It was for over $1,500,000. It took extra special care when depositing that one. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/15 "2003-08-13T15:59:53Z")
I used to work for a large real-estate company, and took the checks to the bank to be deposited. I saw several $500k+ checks. I don’t know what the largest I’ve ever personally received is. Not large enough. The biggest one I’ve written was for $11,500, for a car. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/16 "2003-08-13T16:05:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anonymous Coward \* > \*\*You should have grabbed that 350K receipt and used it for “scrap” next time you write your number down for some hot chick. \*\* You can buy phoney ones online just for that purpose! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/17 "2003-08-13T16:09:06Z")
$32 million dollars, and some change. Used to work Tax for a Fortune 100 company. It wasn’t my money. It was money moving from said company to the IRS. It was my job to deliver the check. By hand. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/18 "2003-08-13T16:15:05Z")
I had $10,000 deposited straight into my account. It went right out again for my son’s tuition. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/19 "2003-08-13T16:46:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morkfromork \* > \*\* “what’s the largest cheque (check) you’ve ever cashed (or deposited)?” \*\* About three inches tall, and 8 inches long. Seriously, I think my biggest was $26,000, from selling a stock. ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851/20 "2003-08-13T16:58:36Z")
Did I have to deposit it myself? If so, then $1.98 million. I received a check from the world’s 2nd largest soft drink manufacturer in error. They had put my name instead of my employers name on the monthly payment for services rendered by our company. In order for my employer to deposit it, I had to co-sign it with them. It was one of the most depressing things I’ve ever done, handing over that check… ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-check-cheque-youve-ever-cashed-or-deposited/194851.md?page=2)