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Fun facts about the $10,000 bill:


The front of the $10,000 bill features U.S. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. The backs of early bills feature the embarkation of the Pilgrims. The backs of later bills simply say "Ten Thousand Dollars" in large letters.
Chase was President Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury as the Civil War began. During his time in office he administered the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (later the Internal Revenue Service) to raise money for the war, then the next year administered the nation's first income tax. He also helped establish the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print the Government's first currency (known as greenbacks, because of their color - and because green was a hard color to reproduce at the time, which helped deter counterfeiting).
All bills were printed in green, except for the 1934 gold certificate series, which were printed in orange on the reverse. These gold certificates (of denominations $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000) were issued after the gold standard was repealed and gold was compulsorily confiscated by order of Franklin Roosevelt on March 9, 1933 (see United States Executive Order 6102), and thus were used only for intra-government transactions and not issued to the public.
For the most part, large-denomination bills were used by banks and the Federal Government for large financial transactions. However, the introduction of the electronic money system has made large-scale cash transactions obsolete. Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States, $10,000 bills were last printed in 1945, and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969 by the Federal Reserve System after circulation of high-denomination bills was halted by executive order of Richard Nixon, in an effort to combat organized crime.
As of May 30, 2009, there are 336 $10,000 bills in private hands. Most are held by private collectors. Due to their rarity, collectors will pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them. One hundred $10,000 bills were preserved for many years by Benny Binion, the owner of Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they were displayed encased in acrylic. The display has since been dismantled and the bills sold to private collectors.
Inflation fun: the $10,000 bill issued in 1929 was equal in value to $127,000 dollars in 2010.
And now you know!
-Jeph!
Fun facts about the $10,000 bill:


The front of the $10,000 bill features U.S. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. The backs of early bills feature the embarkation of the Pilgrims. The backs of later bills simply say "Ten Thousand Dollars" in large letters.
Chase was President Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury as the Civil War began. During his time in office he administered the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (later the Internal Revenue Service) to raise money for the war, then the next year administered the nation's first income tax. He also helped establish the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print the Government's first currency (known as greenbacks, because of their color - and because green was a hard color to reproduce at the time, which helped deter counterfeiting).
All bills were printed in green, except for the 1934 gold certificate series, which were printed in orange on the reverse. These gold certificates (of denominations $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000) were issued after the gold standard was repealed and gold was compulsorily confiscated by order of Franklin Roosevelt on March 9, 1933 (see United States Executive Order 6102), and thus were used only for intra-government transactions and not issued to the public.
For the most part, large-denomination bills were used by banks and the Federal Government for large financial transactions. However, the introduction of the electronic money system has made large-scale cash transactions obsolete. Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States, $10,000 bills were last printed in 1945, and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969 by the Federal Reserve System after circulation of high-denomination bills was halted by executive order of Richard Nixon, in an effort to combat organized crime.
As of May 30, 2009, there are 336 $10,000 bills in private hands. Most are held by private collectors. Due to their rarity, collectors will pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them. One hundred $10,000 bills were preserved for many years by Benny Binion, the owner of Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they were displayed encased in acrylic. The display has since been dismantled and the bills sold to private collectors.
Inflation fun: the $10,000 bill issued in 1929 was equal in value to $127,000 dollars in 2010.
And now you know!
-Jeph!
