What Is The Largest Bill Ever Printed

Technically speaking, the largest bill ever printed by the U.S. Treasury that can legitimately be traded at a bank for cash is the $100,000 bill.  Huge, isn't it?  It was never designed for individuals, though, it was designed for intra-bank money transfers before everything was put onto a computer.  It has a picture of Woodrow Wilson on the front of it.

The largest bill that's generally available to most individuals, however, is the $10,000 bill.  It has the esteemed Salmon P. Chase on the bill, and was also designed for large bank-to-bank transfers of money pre-computer.  Other notable people on large bills include William McKinley on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland on the $1,000 bill, and James Madison on the $5,000 bill.  However, since no bills over $100 are printed anymore, you would have to find a collector and buy it from them.  The bills are still required under law to be legal tender in a bank if you so choose to deposit it, although these days those bills are more of a really expensive collectors item than anything else.

Today, you can find some of these large bills on eBay.  Take a look here and here to find these bills for yourself.  Every day the government is taking them out of circulation and destroying them so their value will continue to increase.  For mroe information on large banking denominations, please click here.