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A one-dollar bill, the most common Federal Reserve Note . Federal Reserve Notes are the currently issued banknotes of the United States dollar. [1] The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces the notes under the authority of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 [2] and issues them to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. [2]
Federal Reserve Bank Notes are no longer issued; the only U.S. banknotes still in production since 1971 are the Federal Reserve Notes. Large size Federal Reserve Bank Notes were first issued in 1915 in denominations of $5, $10, and $20, using a design that shared elements with both the National Bank Notes and the Federal Reserve Notes of the time.
Federal Reserve Notes were first issued in 1914, [1] and are liabilities of the Federal Reserve System. They were redeemable in gold until 1933. [2] After that date they stopped to be redeemable in anything, much like United States Notes (which later led to the halting of the production of United States Notes).
The name of the Federal Reserve Bank that issued the note encircles a capital letter (A–L), identifying it among the twelve Federal Reserve Banks. The sequential number of the bank (1: A, 2: B, etc.) is also displayed in the four corners of the open space on the bill.
Large-sized Federal Reserve Bank Notes were issued in 1918. Each note was an obligation of the issuing Federal Reserve Bank and could only be redeemed at the corresponding bank. The obverse of the note featured a borderless portrait of Thomas Jefferson to left and wording in the entire center. The reverse featured a World War I battleship. [23]
The note was originally issued as a gold certificate, but the 1933 Executive Order 6102 limited the ownership of gold currency, so the note was redesigned and reissued as a Federal Reserve Note. [1] The Bureau of Engraving and Printing stopped printing them in 1934 [8] but continued to issue the notes until 1969. The notes did not circulate ...
The $100,000 bill, a gold certificate from Series 1934, is the largest denomination banknote ever produced in the United States; it was printed to facilitate transactions between Federal Reserve Banks, and was never issued for usage by the public.
Examples of the note have become valuable among collectors. In 2024, a graded example of a $5000 bill sold at auction for $144,000. [3] In 2023, an example of the $5,000 Federal Reserve Note sold at Heritage Auctions for $300,000. [4]