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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). [12] [13] Due to their rarity, collectors pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them, and some are in museums in other parts of the world.
Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall appears on the obverse of the 1918 five-hundred-dollar bill. The note was a large-size bill measuring 8 cm (3.1 in) x 19 cm (7.5 in). [3] A new small-size 500 bill was issued in 1928 and 1934.
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.
By law (31 U.S.C. § 5114), "only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency". The Secretary of the Treasury usually determines which people and which of their portraits appear on the nation's currency, however legislation passed by Congress can also determine currency design. [ 1 ]
Series of 1928 United States Notes were issued in $2 (through 1928G) and $5 (through 1928F) denominations until the early 1950s. [4] Also, for a brief period in 1933, Series of 1928 $1 United States Notes were issued as a response to the Great Depression.
A twenty dollar bill commemorating Barack Obama's win in the U.S. presidential election is displayed next to a poster of Malcolm X in a store in South Los Angeles, November 12, 2008. Mystery still ...
There are many $500 banknotes, bills or coins, including: Nicaraguan five hundred-cordoba note; One of the withdrawn Canadian banknotes; One of the banknotes of the Hong Kong dollar; One of the banknotes of Zimbabwe; United States five-hundred-dollar bill obsolete US currency; Other currencies that issue $500 banknotes, bills or coins are ...
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...