 FACT: In the hotel, Jake says the briefcase contains approx  $250,000. There are 10 stacks of bills with two bundles in each  stack. A bundle of bills contains 50 bills. So that would be a total  of 100 bills/stack or 1000 total. The largest bill in circulation is  the $100, thus no more than $100,000 could be in the briefcase (most  people dont realize just how difficult it would be for a single  person to carry large sums of money like $1,000,000 or $10,000,000  and how many suit/briefcases it would take to have such in "small,  unmarked bills" but yet movie characters seem to be able to do so  easily in even small bags.)