# Bills over one hundred U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006 "2004-03-13T01:25:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@grisham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grisham)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/1 "2004-03-13T01:25:06Z")
Okay my mom was wondering this and I really didnt know the answer. Could someone please list the person and the amount the bill is worth. This is for all American currency over one hundred dolllars. ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/2 "2004-03-13T01:46:10Z")
[http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/valleyview/computerlab/misc/money/presidential-money.html](http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/valleyview/computerlab/misc/money/presidential-money.html) ---
**Author:** ![grisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@grisham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grisham)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/3 "2004-03-13T01:52:30Z")
Well thank ya Sethdallob. Cleared that one right up. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/4 "2004-03-13T01:53:56Z")
Currently the highest-value bill in the world (in general circulation) is the 500 Euro note. So the movies are wrong, spies cross frontiers with suitcases full of Euros, not dollars. ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/5 "2004-03-13T01:54:02Z")
[http://www.moneyfactory.com/section.cfm/5/61](http://www.moneyfactory.com/section.cfm/5/61) ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/6 "2004-03-13T01:58:54Z")
One more - I figure that the original poster hasn’t heard of Google, so let’s help him out. [http://www.banknotes.com/faq.htm](http://www.banknotes.com/faq.htm) What are the names of the famous people depicted on various denominations of U.S. paper currency? Answer: 1 dollar note depicts George Washington; 2 dollar note depicts Thomas Jefferson; 5 dollar note depicts Abraham Lincoln; 10 dollar note depicts Alexander Hamilton; 20 dollar note depicts Andrew Jackson; 50 dollar note depicts Ulysses S. Grant; 100 dollar note depicts Benjamin Franklin; 500 dollar note depicts William McKinley; 1000 dollar note depicts Grover Cleveland; 5000 dollar note depicts James Madison; 10000 dollar note depicts Salmon P. Chase; 100000 dollar note depicts Woodrow Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![bobk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@bobk2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobk2)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/7 "2004-03-13T02:55:06Z")
What about the 1,000,000 dollar bill? I just saw a picture of one. The portrait on the front was of the Statue of Liberty. OK, OK, it was a fake, and the lady who tried to cash it, at a McDonald’s of all places, I think, got in trouble. Come to think of it, wasn’t Montgomery Burns somehow involved in a large currency bill? I’m not sure if his picture was on it, or he just stole it. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/8 "2004-03-13T03:25:41Z")
If we’re talking highest demonination note, rather than highest-value one, then the various episodes of hyperinflation will provide many horrible examples. The highest number I found in a quick Google is the [20 TRILLION Mark Note](http://www.the-privateer.com/germany.html) issued in Germany in 1923. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/9 "2004-03-13T04:26:28Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > So the movies are wrong, spies cross frontiers with suitcases full of Euros, not dollars. Actually, that was one of the objections to the 500 Euro note: ease of smuggling. As it stands, a million dollars in $100 bills is on the order of a suitcase full, while in 500 Euro notes it’s more like a purse. Now, given that the Euro’s only been released so long ago and movies take a certain time from writing to production, you can give Hollywood a break, can’tcha? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/10 "2004-03-13T04:59:53Z")
Don’t forget that [George W. Bush is on the $200 bill](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushbill1.html)… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bills-over-one-hundred-u-s/234006/11 "2004-03-13T06:09:23Z")
> [@bobk2](#): > > OK, OK, it was a fake, and the lady who tried to cash it, at a McDonald’s of all places, I think, got in trouble. Wal\*Mart. > [@bobk2](#): > > Come to think of it, wasn’t Montgomery Burns somehow involved in a large currency bill? I’m not sure if his picture was on it, or he just stole it. [Trillion Dollar Bill.](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-1483/)