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| Emittente | Federal Reserve System |
|---|---|
| Anno | 1934 |
| Tipo | Standard circulation banknote |
| Valore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Valuta | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Composizione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Dimensioni | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Forma | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Stampatore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Disegnatore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Incisore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| In circolazione fino al | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Riferimento/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del dritto | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
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| Legenda del dritto | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del rovescio | Printed entirely in green intaglio on white paper. A large central oval guilloche panel carries the numeral 500, surrounded by elaborate lathe-work scrollwork and foliate ornamental borders extending to all four corners, each bearing the numeral 500. The legend THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA runs across the upper portion, with FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS inscribed below the central vignette. |
| Legenda del rovescio | 500 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 500 FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS 500 |
| Firma/e | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Tipo di protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione della protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Varianti | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Commenti |
The Series 1934 $500 note was a legitimate workhorse of large-value interbank transfers and wholesale commercial transactions at a time when wire infrastructure was neither universal nor trusted. These were not retail notes — few private individuals ever held one. Federal Reserve banks used them to settle clearinghouse balances, and most specimens cycled through the system without ever touching a teller's drawer.
Executive Order 6102 and the subsequent Gold Reserve Act of 1934 reshaped the entire denomination structure of U.S. currency that year, and the $500 was retained specifically because institutional demand was real. The Federal Reserve officially discontinued the $500 in 1969 alongside the $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 notes, citing declining use and law enforcement concerns about high-denomination cash in criminal transactions. All remaining Federal Reserve Bank stocks were destroyed; only notes already in private hands survived.
Roughly 342 notes from this series were still outstanding as of Treasury records published in the 1990s.