Related: When did prison uniforms change from black and white stripes to orange jumpsuits, and why?

Can I piggyback on this question to ask if the bag-with-a-dollar-sign idea is rooted in reality at all? Like did banks ever actually use such bags or were they something that was invented to depict fictional robbers?

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