Today I studied the biography of Woodrow Wilson and was surprised to find that his image appears on a banknote – note this – worth 100,000 dollars. It turns out that it’s not the only one of its kind – there is a 10,000 dollar note with Salmon Chase’s portrait, banknotes of 500 (McKinley, Marshall), 1,000 dollars (Hamilton, Cleveland), and 5,000 dollars (Madison). The 100,000 dollar banknote was used only for internal transactions by the Federal Reserve. A total of 42,000 copies were printed. They were never circulated publicly; moreover, possessing such a banknote is illegal. Some time after their production was stopped, most of them were destroyed.
The 10,000 dollar note is currently for sale on eBay, priced at half a million.
Really interesting, amongst all these feet, pounds, ounces, and yards, money is still in the usual decimal system.
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