US Banknotes

Series 1981 $100 bills have the signatures of Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and US Treasurer Angela Buchanan.

Series 1981 A bills were issued when Buchanan was replaced by Katherine Ortega.

The average size of 1923 and earlier bills is 187 × 79 mm.

They were so large they were referred to a "horseblanket" bills. That inconvenient size caused the Treasury to reduce bills' dimensions starting with the 1928 series. Since then all US bills are approximately 156 × 66 mm.

There are no cars on a two dollar bill. You have a novelty item.

Unless your bill is in brand-new condition, its retail value as a collectible is only around $1.50 so you would probably not be able to sell it for more than face value or $1.25. If the bill is in uncirculated condition it might retail for all of $2 to $5. In that case you might find a private collector who'd be interested, but these bills were both printed and saved in huge numbers. They're so commonly available among banknote collectors that finding an interested person would probably take more effort than you'd make in profit.

The blue seal indicates your bill is a silver certificate, a now-discontinued type of paper money that was backed by silver bullion on deposit in the US Treasury. The majority of silver certificates that people find today are common dates that were saved as souvenirs when they were phased out in the mid-1960s. If your bill is dated 1935 in most cases it will be worth only a few dollars. With a 1957 date it's unlikely to be more than $1.50 or $2.00.

If your bill has any other date, please post a new question with its date and whether there is a small letter right next to the date.

There are currently 2 facilities where US bills are printed. The original facility is in Washington and a secondary plant is in Fort Worth. All denominations, not just $1 bills, are printed at each facility.

The Fort Worth plant opened in December 1990. Bills printed there can be identified by a tiny "FW" next to the plate number in one corner of the design, for example FWC36

Theoretically yes, but it's extremely doubtful you'd make any money on the sale. 1957-dated US $1 silver certificates are extremely common among collectors. In average condition they retail for less than $1.75; even nice uncirculated ones are in the $3 range.

Please check your bill again and post a new question. No genuine US $100 bills were dated 1920, and the last $100 silver certificates were printed in 1891.

The banner across its top and the red seal indicate it's a United States Note and not a certificate. Certificates were redeemable in silver or gold, and had blue and gold seals, respectively. US Notes were issued directly by the Federal government and weren't redeemable for precious metal. They were discontinued in the 1960s.

Please see the question "What is the value of a 1953 US 5 dollar bill with a red seal?" for more information.

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There are certificate notes and red seal notes but they're not the same, at least among bills issued during the 20th century.

Red ink indicates that a bill is a United States Note. Certificates were at issued for redemption in silver (blue seal, up to the 1957 series) and gold (gold seal, up to 1928)

US Notes were simply a different form of currency that was almost identical to modern Federal Reserve Notes. The only major difference was that they were issued directly by the federal government versus the Federal Reserve System. US Notes generally made up only a small fraction of all bills printed each year, so they were phased out between 1966 and 1971 in order to eliminate the costs of maintaining two separate production lines.

Please check your bill again and post a new, separate question. The US didn't print any bills dated 1944. 1935 is the closest date for $1 silver certificates.

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There were no series letters on any 1929 US bills. You may be referring instead to the Federal Reserve District letter; "G" indicates your bill was distributed by the Chicago district.

There's more information at the question "What is the value of a 1929 US 100 dollar Federal Reserve Note?"

The first $1 silver certificates were printed in 1886. The last bills were in the 1957-B series which actually ran to about 1965, because modern US bills are dated by their "series" rather than when they were printed.

The Related Link shows dates and values for most US $1 bills issued since the Civil War.

No, and there never was an old series either. All "million dollar bills" are bogus, printed as novelty items. They sell for a couple of bucks and you can usually get one with any of several different presidents pictured on it.

In fact, the highest value bill ever printed for general use was "only" $10,000. The US printed a few thousand $100,000 bills for internal use but that's all. Since 1969 the highest denomination in use is just $100.

As of 10/2012 retail values range from $1250 to $1650 depending on condition. Uncirculated, $2000 or more.