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1 000 000 Dollars U.S. Millennium Note
| Issuer | United States |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | U.S. MILLENNIUM NOTE 1 MILLION THIS IS NOT LEGAL TENDER AND IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED AS CURRENCY WWW.THEMILLION.COM TREASURE OF THE INTERNET SERIES 2003 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1 MILLION MILLION COPYRIGHT OF S.M. Medrano All Rights Reserved 1,000,000 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONE MILLION DOLLARS 1,000,000 LIBERTY |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the U.S. Capitol Building set within an elaborate oval guilloche border, flanked by two large bald eagle head vignettes facing inward from the left and right. Dense lathe-work guilloche forms the background field, with the denomination repeated vertically on both side margins. A scroll at the bottom center carries the inscription "NON NEGOTIABLE". |
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Not legal tender, never issued by the Federal Reserve, and worth exactly nothing as currency. These million-dollar novelty notes flooded souvenir shops and tourist traps in the early 2000s, a cottage industry that operated entirely outside any official monetary framework. The Secret Service had long since clarified that fantasy notes of denominations that do not exist — no U.S. denomination above $100 has been printed for public circulation since the $500 and $1,000 notes were discontinued in 1969 — fall outside counterfeiting statutes, provided they are not passed as genuine.
Medrano's name appearing in the designer credit is one of the few verifiable facts attached to this piece.