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Level 2 · Medium
A man pays at a restaurant with a valid cheque. In this case, cashing it would require the owner to surrender the original to the bank without getting it back. He accepts payment but places the paper in a display case rather than with the cheques to deposit.
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The answer
The customer was a famous artist who had drawn and signed on the back of the cheque. The owner valued the original above the stated sum and chose to keep it as an artwork. That particular deposit procedure required surrendering the paper; he could not simply photograph it and keep the drawing too.