The largest denomination ever printed by the United States was the Series 1934 $100,000 Gold Certificate, featuring President Woodrow Wilson.

Printed from December 1934 through January 1935, these enormous notes were never available to the public. They served as an accounting tool for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. The government printed 42,000, later destroying most of them—and private ownership of a genuine certificate remains illegal.

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