Comments on: A $100,000 Bill? The Story Behind Large-Denomination Currency

By: TheBear

TheBear — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:45:37 +0000

Here in Canada the $2 bill was always popular for some reason. Now of course we no longer have $1 or $2 bills but the ubiquitous $1 (loonie) and $2 (toonie) coins which are great for weighing down your pockets

By: Norbert

Norbert — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:13:15 +0000

Just interesting: Austria minted a 100.000 Euro coin in 2004 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Österreichische_Euromünzen#Wiener_Philharmoniker, unfortunately that is lost in the english version) – weights 1000 ounces. They had issued only 15 pieces (and sold them for about 400.000 Euros) – so that limits the number of people to possess a complete Euro-collection to 15 at max :(

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:41:32 +0000

I wish the government would do away with $1 bills and just flood the market with dollar coins and $2 bills.

By: Gerrit Jr

Gerrit Jr — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:21:09 +0000

I seriously wonder that when the US Govt finally decides to let a $100000 bill be legal to own as a collectible, what this 1st legalized note will fetch. I can see an easy $10-15 Million for that historic 1st “legal” note.

Look at the 1st 1933 Double Eagle that was legalized. $8M+

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:27:20 +0000

The Bank of England have 1 million pound notes but they aren’t in general circulation. They’re used to underwrite the Scottish and Northern Irish banks who print their own currency.

By: Billy B.

Billy B. — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:51:24 +0000

I graduated from college in 1980 and soon after went to work at the Chase Manhattan Bank in downtown NYC. I worked in a department named the “Coupon & Bond Collections” department (@ 1NYP/4). Though we were only supposed to receive coupons & bonds, we very often received over our window all sorts of erroneous (nice/official looking) papers. I was the youngest/newest guy in the department, and out of ~150 employees or so, I was seated next to the oldest/most-senior employee in the department. Phil L was given the responsible task of handling the most valuable pieces of errant papers that came across our receive windows. He kept these papers for a few days, then passed them on to one or the other departments located elsewhere in the Bank. The koolest papers Phil handled (related to such a discussion as this) were contemporary US Treasury Bills & Notes (at that time all “bearer” just like US Currency). These papers were sold at US Treasury auctions at a discount to face, so the bills all had “maturity dates” on them. They were issued/printed by the US Treasury (as opposed to the FRB). They were approximately 5″x7″ in size, printed on corn silk paper, embossed with the finest period detail possible (very much resembling over-sized US currency). I don’t recall the characters/personalities depicted, but I personally saw and handled such bearer bills/notes in the denominations of $1,000,000., $5,000,000. & $10,000,000. Phil told me that he had once or twice handled such a bearer $20,000,000 note also. I’ve never read of anybody mentioning these US Treasury late-1970′s/early-1980′s bearer bills/notes in discussions of the USA’s largest denomination currency… and obviously this is a mistake. If anyone pushed this issue with the UST, they’d probably offer up nice images of these period bearer “treasury bills/notes” that certainly belong alongside any such discussion of the USA’s largest denomination currency. Regular folks passed the regular-sized FRB notes, big-shots passed these larger UST notes (folded twice over, they’d easily fit in anyone’s wallet).

By: julio

julio — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:57:17 +0000

hi ethan, i have $100,000.00 bill, an article said it’s worth about $1.6M today and tagged as RARE. do you know where can i sell it?

By: The Great L.A.

The Great L.A. — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:14:43 +0000

When I graduated from High School in
1967, my parents said I could go on the
class trip to Washington D.C. or they
would give me money to be used for my
first car.The night I graduated, after
the ceremony, my parents had a little
party for me. The gift they gave me was
a joke of fixing a broken watch that I
had. On the bottom of the plastic box that it was in, they had tucked a single
bill, ever so slyly.When I opened the nicely wrap gift I saw my broken watch… they said ” look underneith ”
To my complete astonishment, they had
folded a $ 500.00 bill. The following week, I bought a 1962, Ford Fairlane with it. But I can always say, I once had a real $500.00 bill…….

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:37:35 +0000

The Covington, GA Wal-Mart got suspicious when she said, “Keep the change.” :)

By: knmochl

knmochl — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:53:22 +0000

So Chase Bank basically took the deceased customer’s family for $130,000. And they’re *proud* of this story? That customer is turning in his/her grave!!