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The United States one-hundred-dollar bill (US$100) is a denomination of United States currency. The first United States Note with this value was issued in 1862 and the Federal Reserve Note version was first produced in 1914. [ 2 ]
The most recent release of the $100 bill was originally planned for 2011 but was delayed two years because of new security features that caused the notes to crease during printing.
Arthur J. "Art" Williams Jr. is an American-born artist and former counterfeiter, [1] who counterfeited the 1996 hundred dollar bill, and was subject of the book The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten. His notoriety came as being the first to break all the security features within the 1996-issued $100 bill. [2]
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.
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The national currency, issued and unissued, has a series date (corresponding to when the design was last changed) and a release date. The first series printed by the Federal Reserve was Series 1914. It contained a $5 bill with Abraham Lincoln , a $10 bill with Andrew Jackson , a $20 bill with Grover Cleveland , a $50 bill with Ulysses Grant ...
In 1945, the Treasury stopped printing $500 and $1,000 bills; and, in 1969, it recalled all remaining $1,000 bills, $5,000 bills and $10,000 bills because of their overwhelming prevalence in money ...