And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
The $10,000 bill featuring the portrait of President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was the highest denomination US currency ever to publicly circulate.
With inflation, they may have to bring this one back soon. The 500 should come back right now.
Wilson was on the $100,000 Gold Certificate, which was never publicly circulated. It wouldn't last long today, because people like us would be spitting on it. https://www.investopedia.com/6-famous-discontinued-and-uncommon-u-s-currency-denominations-4773302
And for some fun movie stuff revolving around the $10k bill, including a great sound track, see "The Mighty Quinn", starring a young Denzel.
ReplyDeleteThe highest current bill, the $100, has the same purchasing power as a $5 in 1940.
ReplyDeleteForget 1940.
DeleteIt has the same purchasing power as a $1 bill from 1932.
That $10,000 is closer to being the new hundred.
Ponder that a bit.
We'll have billion dollar notes just like Zimbabwe in no time at all. Bidenflation.
ReplyDeleteCharlie's right. No untraceable big bills.
ReplyDeleteHunter loads his nose with these.
ReplyDeleteI thought he was using government issued crack pipes these days.
DeleteCash and ICE equal Freedom. So no.
ReplyDeleteCharlie understands.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that the highest denomination had Woodrow Wilson on it. Check me. Eastwood
ReplyDeleteWilson was on the $100,000 Gold Certificate, which was never publicly circulated. It wouldn't last long today, because people like us would be spitting on it.
Deletehttps://www.investopedia.com/6-famous-discontinued-and-uncommon-u-s-currency-denominations-4773302
The largest US legal tender has a portrait of someone no one ever heard of. Funny, no?
ReplyDeleteThat $10K bill won't trade as well as a 20 round box of 5.56 in the not too distant future.
ReplyDeleteBack when bills had awesome engraving work
ReplyDeleteShow me the money!
ReplyDeleteCharley doesn't surf.
ReplyDeleteIsn't chase a four letter word?
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A banded packet of those would be a cool million. Nice.
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