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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 443332, member: 11668&quot;]The late sixties was when the Federal Reserve finally ran low on $500&#039;s and $1000&#039;s, which hadn&#039;t been printed since the last 1934-series printings in about 1945.&nbsp; In order to make more, they would&#039;ve had to update those two denominations&#039; designs for the 32-subject dry-intaglio presses, before they could print 1969-series versions.&nbsp; The Fed and Treasury collectively decided that it wasn&#039;t worth the trouble, when these bills were so rarely used that the previous printing had lasted twenty-odd years.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a serious proposal in Congress in the &#039;80s to discontinue production of the $100 bill, due to concerns about drug trafficking and such.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s when people started to get this idea that similar concerns had been the reason for the end of the $500+ denominations a couple of decades prior.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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