Fred's Fun Fact: Dollar Bills!

Find out what larger bill used to be made!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread show is on Fred's Fun Fact Fred fund.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So much. Guys, did you know the largest bill to
go into circulation in the US was a ten thousand
dollars bill? Really, there was a ten thousand dollars bill.
You may have fives, tens, twenties, one hundreds. You may
not have any gash, which gash is almost worthless. I mean,
if you've got more than a twenty. Even if you
have a twenty, good luck trying to use it. A

(00:32):
lot of places won't even take it. But the largest
note ever issued for public circulation was a ten thousand
dollars bill. I don't know how you say this guy's
name Salmon, because I don't think you call him salmon.
Say it's spelled the same sao Mon Salmon. P. Chase
the Secretary of the Treasury from eighteen sixty one to
eighteen sixty four. The bills were first printed in nineteen

(00:52):
forty five, and on July fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine, the
Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury announced that
the larger bills would be discontntinued due to lack of use.
Can you break a ten thousand right? What a feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Come on all singles, what all singles on ten thousand singles,
Let's make it what stacks on stacks?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah? Okay, well, then take your ten thousand dollars bill
downstairs and get you some single.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
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