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The United States 10,000-dollar bill (US$10000) (1878–1934) is an obsolete denomination of the United States dollar. The $10,000 note was the highest denomination of US currency to be used by the public and was no longer issued after 1969. These notes are still legal tender, and thus banks will redeem them for face value.
The United States ten-dollar bill (US$10) is a denomination of U.S. currency.The obverse of the bill features the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, two renditions of the torch of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), and the words "We the People" from the original engrossed preamble of the United States Constitution.
English: United States $10 Banknote, Legal Tender, Series of 1901 (Fr. Ref#114), depicting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.The central portrait is a depiction of an American bison which may be modeled after Black Diamond, a bison once housed in the Central Park Zoo.
Made in 1929 and 1934, these $5 and $10 bills have brown seals and the name of the issuing bank. They might be worth three to four times their face value, or thousands of dollars, OldMoneyPrices ...
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 [update] , 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).
These initial bills were referred to as “large-size legal tender bills.” Today, one of these can fetch a price of more than $75,000, according to a high-grade 2018 example sold via Heritage ...
The U.S. Dollar has numerous discontinued denominations, particularly high denomination bills, issued before and in 1934 in six denominations ranging from $500 to $100,000. Although still legal tender, most are in the hands of collectors and museums. The reverse designs featured abstract scroll-work with ornate denomination identifiers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is to officially announce Thursday that a redesign ...