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Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall appears on the obverse of the 1918 five-hundred-dollar bill. The note was a large-size bill measuring 8 cm (3.1 in) x 19 cm (7.5 in). [3] A new small-size 500 bill was issued in 1928 and 1934. The new version featured former president William McKinley's portrait. [4]
Beginning in July 1969, the Federal Reserve began removing high-denomination currency from circulation and destroying any large bills returned by banks. [11] As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist, along with 342 $5,000 bills, 165,372 $1,000 bills and fewer than 75,000 $500 bills (of over 900,000 printed).
On eBay, these kinds of bills can sell for anywhere from $10 to $300. The lower the serial number, the more valuable the currency is considered to be; a bill with the serial number 00000001 could ...
They switched to small size in 1929 and are the only type of currency in circulation today in the United States. They were originally printed in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. The $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations were last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, making the $100 bill ...
Once upon a time, though, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000 bills were in circulation. After the last printing of those denominations in 1945, the Treasury Department and the Federal ...
Like the $500 and $1,000 bills, it was discontinued in 1969. Like $500 bills, 1928 $5,000 bills are scarcer than 1934s and, according to Old Currency Values, there are only under two dozen 1928s ...
Since 1969 banks are required to send any $5000 bill to the Department of the Treasury for destruction. [3] Examples of the note have become valuable among collectors. In 2024, a graded example of a $5000 bill sold at auction for $144,000. [4] In 2023, an example of the $5,000 Federal Reserve Note sold at Heritage Auctions for $300,000. [5]
The Biggest Bills: $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000. You’re not likely to find the $100,000 bill out there, as it was used only for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and was never put into ...