US Banknotes

Two current ($10 and $100) and many older bills carried portraits of people who weren't presidents.

There is no restriction on the portraits chosen for US banknotes. The choice is determined by the Treasury Department.

The choice of which portraits and pictures appear on US currency is partly artistic and partly political.

In the absence of Congressional legislation (sometimes seen as meddling ! ) requiring a specific image, the decision is made by officials at the Treasury Department. While the process is often opaque to those of us in the general public, the goal in most cases is to honor a person, place, or event that's significant in American history. Certainly Independence Hall, the Capitol Building, the Treasury, and the White House are among the most recognizably American buildings.

No one keeps track of the number of US $1 bills in circulation. Anywhere from 2 to 5 billion are printed each year but it's not physically possible to know how many have been lost / damaged / hidden away / etc. versus those that remain in use.

The largest bill in circulation in the US is $100.

$5 to $8 if circulated, $10 to $12 if uncirculated.

Note that most serial numbers have no effect on a bill's value. The only ones of interest are those with a pattern (12345678 or 13577531) or that are very low (00000005)

Some are more valuable than others, depending on the date (series). If it's series 1976 or later, the bill is worth face value only.

First you have to find out if it's real. A lot of early currency has been widely copied and counterfeited. The only way to tell is to have the bill inspected in person by a paper money expert such as a dealer or appraiser.

well its still a $100 bill but upside down it looks like a 001$

Only two current denominations feature non-presidents: Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 bill and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is on the $100.

Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase was on the $10,000 bill, which is no longer in use.

If you look at bills printed before US paper money was standardized in 1928, far more than four non-presidents appeared. Among them: Inventor Samuel Morse, explorers Lewis and Clark, First Lady Martha Washington, Chief Justice John Marshall, and many others.

Yes. President William McKinley's image was on the 1928 and 1934 series of $500 bills.

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There is no one million dollar bill, nor any current likelihood that one will be introduced.

The only reason people ask this question is that conservative Austrian School economists like the Mises Institute and writers for Human Events argue that Barack Obama's policies of increasing welfare and social spending will lead to hyperinflation because debts will pile up and become unable to pay by the amount of tax revenue available. Austrian School economists argue that under this condition the United State government will print more and more money to pay its debts, leading to a hyperinflationary spiral like that of Argentina in the late 1980s or Zimbabwe more recently.

For this reason, many Austrian websites like to imagine Barack Obama on a million dollar note as would result from hyperinflation.

The $5 bill has carried Lincoln's picture since 1914. I checked various lists of pre-Federal Reserve notes and could not find any reference to Washington's picture being used, even on non-standard issues.

Abraham Lincoln is on both the front and back of the five dollar bill. His statue can be seen through the door of the Lincoln Monument.

25-75 USD or so

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The first US president, George Washington.

Wilson appeared on a specially-issued $100,000 note that was used to make high-value currency exchanges between government departments in the days before electronic transfers were possible.

The year should be printed on the front of the bill

The Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles uses the letter code "L" and the numeric code "12".

To clear things up, the bill wasn't actually printed by the Los Angeles Federal Reserve Bank. It was distributed through that bank but was printed in either Washington of Fort Worth at the request of the district.

Not a president - former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury AND Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase is pictured on the US $10,000 bill.

Still technically legal tender in the US, 10,000 dollar bills were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve. Only about 300 $10,000 bills known to exist.

No. As you can see by simply checking the caption underneath the portrait, the portrait is that of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president.

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No, this is a myth. First, a living president cannot be on any American money; and second, America does not have a 25 dollar bill. We have twenties, and we have fives. You may have seen a commemorative coin or bill for collectors, or perhaps you saw a bill from a foreign country, but there is no American coin or bill with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or Barack Obama on it.

These are generally worth $100 to $200 depending on condition.