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1928 US$500 Gold Certificate. The United States five-hundred-dollar bill (US$500) is an obsolete denomination of United States currency. It was printed by the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) beginning in 1861 and ending in 1945. Since 1969 banks are required to send $500 bills to the United States Department of the Treasury for ...
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).
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 ...
$500 Legal Tender (1869) John Quincy Adams (Eng) Charles Burt [47] $10,000 Gold certificate (1875) Andrew Jackson (Eng) Alfred Sealey [45] $500 Gold certificate (1870) Abraham Lincoln: $5,000 4% Consol Bond (1877) Andrew Johnson: $20,000 U.S. Funded Loan Bond (1891) Zachary Taylor: $20 Legal Tender (1869) Alexander Hamilton (Eng) Charles Burt [48]
Since 1969 banks are required to send any $5000 bill to the Department of the Treasury for destruction. [2] Examples of the note have become valuable among collectors. In 2024, a graded example of a $5000 bill sold at auction for $144,000. [3] In 2023, an example of the $5,000 Federal Reserve Note sold at Heritage Auctions for $300,000. [4]
Abraham Lincoln was portrayed on the 1861 $10 Demand Note; Salmon Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, approved his own portrait for the 1862 $1 Legal Tender Note; Winfield Scott was depicted on Interest Bearing Notes during the early 1860s; William P. Fessenden (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury) appeared on fractional currency ...
The United States fifty-dollar bill (US$50) is a denomination of United States currency. The 18th U.S. president (1869-1877), Ulysses S. Grant, is featured on the obverse, while the U.S. Capitol is featured on the reverse. All current-issue $50 bills are Federal Reserve Notes.
The $100 bill is the largest denomination that has been printed and circulated since July 13, 1969, when the larger denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were retired. [4] As of December 2018, [update] the average life of a $100 bill in circulation is 22.9 years before it is replaced due to wear.