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Gallery/National Numismatic Collection/Paper/US/Banknotes

The National Numismatic Collection is part of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. This gallery will display highlights from their collection of United States Banknotes. It is a work in progress.

United States Banknotes edit

For a summary of information about the people depicted on the notes below, see List of people on United States banknotes.

Demand Notes edit

Valued Image Set:Demand Notes

Legal Tender Notes (Large) edit

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      $1-LT-1862
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    $1-LT-1869
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    $1-LT-1878
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    $1-LT-1880
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      $2-LT-1862
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    $2-LT-1869
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    $2-LT-1875
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    $2-LT-1880
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    $2-LT-1917
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      $5-LT-1862
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      $5 Legal Tender, Large Type, Series 1863
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    $5-LT-1869
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    $5-LT-1875
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    $5-LT-1880
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    $5-LT-1880
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      $10-LT-1863
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    $10-LT-1869
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    $10-LT-1875
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    $10-LT-1880
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        $10 Legal Tender, Large Type, Series 1901
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    $10-LT-1923
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      $20-LT-1863
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    $20-LT-1869
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    $20-LT-1875
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    $20-LT-1880
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      $50-LT-1862
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    $50-LT-1869
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    $50-LT-1874
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      $50 Legal Tender, Large Type, Series 1880
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      $100-LT-1863
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    $100-LT-1869
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    $100-LT-1878
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    $100-LT-1880
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      US-$500-LT-1863
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    $500-LT-1869
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    $500-LT-1875
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    $500-LT-1880
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      $1000-LT-1863
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    $1000-LT-1878
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    $1000-LT-1880
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    $5000-LT-1878 (Proof
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    $10000-LT-1878 (Proof)

Silver Certificates (Featured Set, English Wikipedia) edit

Treasury Notes (Featured Set, English Wikipedia) edit

Federal Reserve Notes (Large) edit

High Denomination edit

Series 1914 edit

Series 1928 edit

Federal Reserve Bank Notes edit

Large size edit

Small size edit

Gold Certificates (Large) edit

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    $100 (1863)
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    $500 (1863)
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    $1,000 (1863)
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    $5,000 (1863)
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    $10,000 (1863)
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    $500 (1870)
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    $5,000 (1870)
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    $100 (1875)
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    $1,000 (1875)
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    $10,000 (1875)
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    $10 (1907)
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    $10 (1922)
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    $20 (1882)
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      $20 (1882)
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    $20 (1905)
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    $20 (1906)
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    $20 (1922)
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    $50 (1882)
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      $50 (1882)
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    $50 (1913)
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    $50 (1922)
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    $100 (1882)
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      $100 (1882)
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    $100 (1922)
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      $500 (1882)
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    $500 (1922)
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    $1,000 (1882)
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      $1,000 (1882)
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    $1,000 (1907)
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    $1,000 (1922)
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      $5,000 (1882)
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    $5,000 (1888)
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      $10,000 (1882)
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    $10,000 (1888)
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    $10,000 (1900)

Legal Tender Notes (Small) edit

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       $1 Legal Tender, Small Type, Series 1928
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       $2 Legal Tender, Small Type, Series 1928
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        $5 Legal Tender, Small Type, Series 1928

Hawaii Overprint Notes edit

Valued Image Set: Hawaii Overprint Notes

North Africa Series edit

Valued Image Set: North Africa Series

Gold Certificates (Small) edit

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    $10 (1928)
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    $20 (1928)
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    $50 (1928)
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    $100 (1928)
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    $500 (1928)
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    $1,000 (1928)
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    $5,000 (1928)
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    $10,000 (1928)
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    $100 (1934)
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    $1,000 (1934)
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    $10,000 (1934)
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    $100,000 (1934)
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United States Fractional Currency (Featured Set, English Wikipedia) edit

 
This user created the Featured List of Fractional currency (United States)
For a more detailed history, see Fractional currency (United States).

Fractional Mockup edit

Confederate States of America edit

Bonds/Loans edit

Other edit

Permission edit

All currency images attributed to the National Numismatic Collection fall under the following license and OTRS ticket and image use should credit the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History.:

Godot13 / Smithsonian Institution, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:
 
Public domain
 This image depicts a unit of currency issued by the United States of America. If this is an image of paper currency or a coin not listed here, it is solely a work of the United States Government, is ineligible for US copyright, and is therefore in the public domain in the United States.
Fraudulent use of this image is punishable under applicable counterfeiting laws.

As listed by the the U.S. Currency Education Program at money illustrations, the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR 411), permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:
1. The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
2. The illustration is one-sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
Certain coins contain copyrights licensed to the U.S. Mint and owned by third parties or assigned to and owned by the U.S. Mint [1]. For the United States Mint circulating coin design use policy, see [2]; for the policy on the 50 State Quarters, see [3].

Also: COM:ART #Photograph of an old coin found on the Internet

 

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