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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 778544, member: 11668&quot;]The $500+ were discontinued in 1969 due to lack of demand.&nbsp; The story about money-laundering concerns came along later, in the &#039;80s, when Congress came close to discontinuing the $100 denomination for that reason.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What happened in 1969 was that the Federal Reserve finally ran low on $500&#039;s, some twenty-five years after the last printing in the &#039;40s.&nbsp; That&#039;s when they decided that, if one printing had lasted *that* long, it just wasn&#039;t worth anyone&#039;s trouble to update the designs to allow for a new printing.&nbsp; (The currency designs had been resized twice since the Series 1934 high-denomination notes, so there would&#039;ve been quite a bit of work to do in order to create a Series 1969 $500, not merely a signature change....)&nbsp; And as long as they were discontinuing $500&#039;s, they pretty well had to discontinue the higher denominations as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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