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A money order is purchased for the amount desired. In this way it is similar to a cashier's check.The main difference is that money orders are usually limited in maximum face value to some specified figure (for example, the United States Postal Service limits domestic postal money orders to US$1,000.00 as of November 2023) while cashier's check are not.
The United States one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill (US$100,000) is a former denomination of United States currency issued from 1934 to 1935. The bill, which features President Woodrow Wilson, was created as a large denomination note for gold transactions between Federal Reserve Banks; it never circulated publicly and its private possession is illegal.
The newer designs, with portraits displayed in the main body of the obverse (rather than in cameo insets), upon paper color-coded by denomination, are sometimes referred to as bigface notes or Monopoly money. [citation needed] Piastre was the original French word for the U.S. dollar, used for example in the French text of the Louisiana Purchase.
Series 1934 gold certificates ($100; $500; $1,000; $10,000; and $100,000) were issued after the gold standard was repealed and gold was compulsorily confiscated by order of President Franklin Roosevelt on March 9, 1933 (see United States Executive Order 6102).
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
1155 = number of edges in the join of two cycle graphs, both of order 33, [142] product of first four odd primes (3*5*7*11) 1156 = 34 2, octahedral number, [143] centered pentagonal number, [46] centered hendecagonal number. [144] 1157 = smallest number that can be written as n^2+1 without any prime factors that can be written as a^2+1. [145]
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas introduced the one thousand peso denomination in December 1991 during the presidency of Corazon Aquino and tenure of BSP Governor Jose L. Cuisia Jr. [2] The note features the portraits of former Chief Justice José Abad Santos; Josefa Llanes Escoda, civic worker and one of the founders of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines; and Vicente Lim, a general in the ...
1,000,000 (one million), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one.