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Ocelot II

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7. Right now the $100 bill is largest bill in circulation.
Fri May 29, 2026, 01:07 PM
22 hrs ago

The faces on bills are Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin - five presidents and two founding fathers. I'm sure Trump thinks he's in the same class of Great Men (I wouldn't call racist Jackson great, but that's another story). The $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, and $100,000 bills feature pictures of McKinley, Cleveland, Madison, Salmon Chase (Treasury secretary), and Woodrow Wilson. The $100,000 never circulated at all.

The Treasury stopped printing the larger notes in 1945, but most continued to circulate until 1969 when The Federal Reserve began destroying those that were received by banks. The few that still exist are legal to spend but are so rare that they are worth more than their face value to collectors. Apparently there never has been a $250 bill, and why should there be one at all? It's a weird denomination, but it puts Himself between Franklin and McKinley, and is more likely to be circulated than anything larger, though perhaps only as a MAGA collector's item which will never be worth more than its face value.

Also, it's illegal to print money with the face of a live person. McKinley got the privilege of being on the $500 bill by becoming dead in a rapid unscheduled disassembly caused by one Leon Czolgosz, so maybe he's not the best act to try to follow, all things considered. But if the bill is ever issued and I can get my hands on one, I will definitely draw horns and a mustache on it with a Sharpie.

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Grab yourself a Sharpie, and go downtown! cloudbase 23 hrs ago #1
Assuming that the illegal travesty actually comes into existence, I would niyad 22 hrs ago #2
Federal law prohibits the portrait of any living person, including a sitting president, from appearing on U.S. currency. sop 22 hrs ago #5
The Republicans will ignore it, as usual synni 22 hrs ago #10
Ummm, the same way he ignores all the others, of course. niyad 21 hrs ago #15
My preferred method of expressing my disgust would be to add a Hitler mustache. Whether on money, passport or jls4561 22 hrs ago #3
HAS to pass congress first vapor2 22 hrs ago #4
Do you seriously think he will have a problem with the spineless, craven niyad 21 hrs ago #16
These bills will never be issued LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #6
Do you seriously think that he would bother consulting the lickspittle niyad 21 hrs ago #17
This measure would need 60 votes in the Senate LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago #19
Again, do you seriously think he would even bother? He thinks that niyad 21 hrs ago #20
Right now the $100 bill is largest bill in circulation. Ocelot II 22 hrs ago #7
When has an act being illegal ever stopped the orange traitor from niyad 21 hrs ago #18
Heck, print your own. Just mark it NOT LEGAL TENDER. usonian 22 hrs ago #8
Worth recalling: snot 22 hrs ago #9
Rubber stamp - PEDO HAB911 22 hrs ago #11
No, because it won't happen. Maru Kitteh 22 hrs ago #12
I would get a rubber ink stamp that would stamp russian asset over his image. nt ImNotGod 22 hrs ago #13
A $250 bill is just a $100 bill after T****'s inflation. The Madcap 22 hrs ago #14
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