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A Series 1934 $10,000 gold certificate depicting Salmon P. Chase, Smithsonian Institution. Gold certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933. While the United States observed a gold standard, the certificates offered a more convenient way to pay in gold than the use of coins
Executive Order 6102 prohibited the hoarding of gold certificates, accompanied also by bullion and coins. [4] Unlike the other denominations of US dollars, the $100,000 bill was never issued as a Federal Reserve Note (aka greenback). It was only issued in the form of a gold certificate. About 42,000 of the $100,000 bills were printed.
Forbade ownership of quantities of gold coin, bullion, and gold certificates worth in excess of $100 (about 5 troy ounces), with exemptions for specific uses and collections; Required all persons to deliver excess quantities of the above on or before May 1, 1933 in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce;
1863 $100 Legal Tender note The first $100 Gold Certificates were issued with a bald eagle to the left and large green 100 in the middle of the obverse. 1880 $100 Legal Tender (1869 version) A new $100 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture ...
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Complete denomination type set of 1928 Gold Certificates Value Series Fr Image Portrait $10 1928 Fr.2400 Alexander Hamilton: $20 1928 Fr.2402 Andrew Jackson: $50 1928 Fr.2404 Ulysses S. Grant: $100 1928 Fr.2405 Benjamin Franklin: $500 1928 Fr.2407 William McKinley: $1,000 1928 Fr.2408 Grover Cleveland: $5,000
Series 1934 gold certificates ($100; $500; $1,000; $10,000; and $100,000) were issued after the gold standard was repealed and gold was compulsorily confiscated by order of President Franklin Roosevelt on March 9, 1933 (see United States Executive Order 6102).
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...