United States Five Hundred Dollar Bill
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| Front of bill: 25th President of the United States, William McKinley. |
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| Back of bill |
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Legal United States currency is printed in bills in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States, the higher denomination $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System. $100,000 bills exist, but were not publicly issued, and were used only for intra-government transactions. They are printed in orange on the reverse, and are illegal to own. All known pieces are in government museums. |
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| A Confederate bill from the civil war, 1864. |



