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  2. Silver certificate (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Large-size silver certificates, generally 1.5 in (38 mm) longer and 0.5 in (13 mm) wider than modern U.S. paper currency, (1878 to 1923) [nb 1] were issued initially in denominations from $10 to $1,000 (in 1878 and 1880) [4][5] and in 1886 the $1, $2, and $5 were authorized. [5][6] In 1928, all United States bank notes were re-designed and the ...

  3. Legal tender - Wikipedia

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    As of 2005, banknotes were legal tender for all payments, and $1 and $2 coins were legal tender for payments up to $100, and 10c, 20c, and 50c silver coins were legal tender for payments up to $5. These older-style silver coins were legal tender until October 2006, after which only the new 10c, 20c and 50c coins, introduced in August 2006 ...

  4. Legal Tender Cases - Wikipedia

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    Obverse of the first $1 bill, issued in 1862 as a legal tender note featuring Treasury Secretary Chase, who later held as Chief Justice that such bills are unconstitutional, before being overturned. The Legal Tender Cases primarily involved the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act of 1862, 12 Stat. 345, enacted during the American Civil ...

  5. United States Note - Wikipedia

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    United States Note. A United States Note, also known as a Legal Tender Note, is a type of paper money that was issued from 1862 to 1971 in the United States. Having been current for 109 years, they were issued for longer than any other form of U.S. paper money other than the currently issued Federal Reserve Note.

  6. Federal Reserve Bank Note - Wikipedia

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    Federal Reserve Bank Notes are legal tender banknotes in the United States that were issued between 1915 and 1934, together with United States Notes, Silver Certificates, Gold Certificates, National Bank Notes and Federal Reserve Notes. [1] They were specified in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and had the same value as other kinds of notes of ...

  7. United States one-thousand-dollar bill - Wikipedia

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    From 1862 to 1880 the US Treasury Department issued $1,000 Legal Tender notes, with three different designs. The portrait of Robert Morris appeared on the first 1000 dollar bill. Mayor of New York DeWitt Clinton appeared on two other versions. In 1878 and 1880 the Treasury produced the $1,000 bill as a silver certificate. Other subsequent ...

  8. United States one-dollar bill - Wikipedia

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    The United States one-dollar bill (US$1), sometimes referred to as a single, has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. fractional currency notes in 1876. An image of the first U.S. president (1789–1797), George Washington, based on the Athenaeum Portrait, a 1796 painting by ...

  9. Silver certificate - Wikipedia

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    Since 1968 they have been redeemable only in Federal Reserve Notes and are thus obsolete, but still valid legal tender at their face value. [12] Large-size silver certificates (1878 to 1923) [nb 2] were issued initially in denominations from $10 to $1,000 (in 1878 and 1880) [15] [16] and in 1886 the $1, $2, and $5 were authorized.