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Here are five discontinued American bills, or currency denominations, that are no longer in circulation: $500 Bill A few versions of the $500 bill were printed over the years and was last printed ...
Of all the bills that are valuable and still in somewhat feasible circulation, the 1950 $100 is the most commonly used bill today. It’s rare in that it features a detailed portrait of Benjamin ...
The $2 bill was first printed in 1862 and is still in circulation today. It originally featured a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, but that changed with an 1869 redesign that put Thomas Jefferson ...
A series 1976 $2 bill, heavily worn from over four decades in circulation. Because $2 bills are uncommon in daily use, their use can make spenders visible. A documented case of using two-dollar bills to send a message to a community is the case of Geneva Steel and the communities in the surrounding Utah County. In 1989, Geneva Steel re-opened ...
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 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. [2] [3]
They’re still legitimate legal tender but are in limited circulation, except for the $100,000 bill, which was only ever used in fiscal channels. These days, most of these increasingly rare bills ...
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).