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1 000 000 Dollars U.S. Millennium Note
| Issuer | United States |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Statue of Liberty's head and crown within an oval guilloche frame, flanked by scrollwork and foliate cornerpieces. A Federal Reserve seal appears to the left, with a green circular underprint stamp to the right bearing the denomination. The header reads "U.S. MILLENNIUM NOTE" within a decorative banner, and the denomination "ONE MILLION DOLLARS" is inscribed in large letters along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 MILLION THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1 MILLION COPYRIGHT OF S.M. Medrano All Rights Reserved NON NEGOTIABLE 1,000,000 ONE MILLION DOLLARS 1,000,000 |
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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.