US Banknotes

The $100 bill is the largest currently-circulating US banknote.

However the Treasury never formally withdrew any older, higher-denomination bills so technically if you had a $10,000 bill you could still legally spend it! Of course you'd have a lot of trouble finding a store willing to take it in payments and in any case it would almost certainly be worth a lot more than $10,000 as a collector's item.

Printing of $10000 bills was suspended by the Treasury due to low use. The president is rarely involved in decisions about what denominations should or should not be produced.

B is the highest series letter on a 1957 $1 silver certificate, so you may be looking at a plate indicator or some other marking.

In any case 1957 $1 SC's are not rare; in average condition they generally retail in the $1.25 to $2.00 range regardless of series letter.

While the US is unlikely to stop printing $1 bills in the near future there's a very slowly increasing realization in Congress that a considerable amount could be saved by doing away with $1 bills in favor of coins.

About 50 other countries have already done so, and claims that their citizens would never accept the new coins proved to be unfounded. However those other countries' coinage policies are determined by their Treasury Departments or Finance Ministries, while coinage changes in US require Congressional approval. That allows politics to muddy the waters significantly, especially because Crane Paper (the single supplier of all paper for $1 bills) lobbies relentlessly to maintain their profit margins.

At some point the inefficiencies of the $1 bill will outweigh the politics of the situation, just like the incredible waste of using English measurements in an otherwise metric world will eventually force the US to convert. That time will not come soon though, unless current attitudes shift more than they have.

Please check again and post a new, separate question. The US didn't print any $1 bills dated 1929.

President Woodrow Wilson.

Only about 42,000 $100,000 bills were ever printed. They were never intended for circulation, and were used to move large amounts of money between government departments in the days before electronic funds transfers. Most were destroyed when they became obsolete, but there is one on display at the Smithsonian in Washington.

If it's cut in half you'd need to present both pieces to a bank for replacement.

Normally you can replace a partial bill only if (a) at least 2/3 of the bill is intact and (b) one of the 2 serial numbers is shown in full. That's to prevent someone from tearing bills in half and separately redeeming each half for a full bill.

Please check your bill again. The banner across its top and the red seal indicate it's a United States Note, a form of paper money issued directly by the Federal government. US Notes were discontinued in the 1960s. $2 Federal Reserve Notes were first printed in 1976.

There's more information at the question "What is the value of a 1953 C US 2 dollar bill?"

This is not a rare date for silver certificates. As of 9-5-2011 it is worth $1.25 to $1.50 in circulated condition. In uncirculated condition it is worth $3 or more. This silver certificate should have a blue seal.

What color is the seal: yellow or blue?

Could be worth something, depending on its condition and variety (signature combinations, variants, etc).

Send a scan, I appraise for free: support@papermoneysite.us and will buy notes too.

A "star note" of any denomination looks just like an ordinary bill of the same series, except that the beginning or ending letter in the serial number is replaced by a star to indicate that the bill is a replacement for one that was damaged during printing.

Bills are printed in bulk so it's impractical for the Treasury to reprint replacement bills with the same serial numbers as those that were damaged. Instead, the damaged bills are destroyed and an equal number of replacements are printed with a new set of serial numbers. One letter is replaced with a star to indicate that the entire run consists of replacement notes.

Banknote collectors consider "enhanced" bills to be altered currency with little or no numismatic interest. Fifty years on, there may be collectors of Kennedy memorabilia who would be interested in one but it's doubtful that they would pay very much for it.

You didn't provide a specific date but 1969 is the only series in the last 50 years to have a "B" letter.

Please see the question "What is the value of a 1969 B US 20 dollar bill?" for more information.

Approximately $335,520

$10

Not currently, but in the past the US issued large-size bills in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. There were also a few special $100,000 bills printed for use within the government but these never circulated.

Despite many internet legends to the contrary, there has NEVER, EVER been a US $1 million bill. Novelty shops sell made-up ones for a few bucks and occasionally people are duped into thinking they're real.

Printing of large-denomination bills ended in 1945 due to low demand. In 1969 President Nixon issued an order stopping distribution of any that remained, in an effort to stop their use in money laundering and other criminal activities.

High-value bills were never officially withdrawn so technically you could still spend one but it wouldn't make a lot of sense - they're worth much more to collectors.

Even though some people speculate about new high-denomination bills ($200 and $500 are most often mentioned) the ubiquitous use of credit cards and e-transfers means that the government is very unlikely to print anything new in the foreseeable future.

No. Nothing close to that description was ever made.

The US did print special 1934 $100,000 gold certificates but these were never circulated. There are many novelty items and counterfeits that try to play off the fame of those certificates but none of them are worth more than the paper they're printed on.

As genuine currency, no. The largest real bill ever printed was $100,000.

All US bills, regardless of denomination, weigh approximately 1 gm. There are 453.6 grams in a US pound so you'd need a stack of 454 bills to weigh that much.

Each bill is 0.11 mm thick so 454 of them would form a stack almost exactly 50 mm high.

Red seals on bills printed from 1928 to 1966 indicate they're United States Notes. The color distinguishes them from silver certificates (blue) and Federal Reserve Notes (green). US Notes were mostly issued as $2 and $5 bills but at one time or another nearly every denomination had at least one series of US Notes.

US Notes were issued directly by the federal government rather than through the Federal Reserve System. The two kinds of currency served the same purpose so production of US Notes was suspended in 1971 to save on printing and distribution costs.

The US dollar coin produced between 1971 and 1978 had a portrait of Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, on the front.