Large-size notes ( 7.4218 × 3.125 in ≈ 189 × 79 mm) File:US-$100-LT-1863-Fr-167.jpg|
1863 Legal Tender note The first Gold Certificates were issued with a bald eagle to the left and large green 100 in the middle of the obverse. File:US-$100-LT-1880-Fr-181.jpg|
1880 Legal Tender (1869 version) A new United States Note was issued with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture on the right. File:US-$100-SC-1878-Fr.337b.jpg|'''
Series 1878 silver certificate''' The first silver certificate was issued with a portrait of James Monroe on the left side of the obverse. File:US-$100-FRN-1914-Fr-1074a.jpg|
1914 Federal Reserve Note The first Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the obverse and allegorical figures representing labor, plenty, America, peace, and commerce on the reverse. File:US-$100-GC-1922-Fr-1215.jpg|
1922 Gold Certificate The Series of 1880 Gold Certificate was re-issued with an obligation to the right of the bottom-left serial number on the obverse. • 1861: Three-year
Interest Bearing Notes were issued that paid 7.3% interest per year. These notes were not primarily designed to circulate and were payable to the original purchaser of the dollar bill. The obverse of the note featured a portrait of General
Winfield Scott. • 1862: The first
United States Note was issued. Variations of this note were issued that resulted in slightly different wording (obligations) on the reverse; the note was issued again in
Series of 1863. • 1863: Both one and two and one half year Interest Bearing Notes were issued that paid 5% interest. The one-year Interest Bearing Notes featured a
vignette of
George Washington in the center, and
allegorical figures representing "The Guardian" to the right and "Justice" to the left. The two-year notes featured a vignette of the
U.S. treasury building in the center, a farmer and mechanic to the left, and sailors firing a cannon to the right. • 1863: The first
Gold Certificates were issued with a
bald eagle to the left and large green '100' in the middle of the obverse. The reverse was distinctly printed in orange instead of green like all other U.S. federal government issued notes of the time. • 1864:
Compound Interest Treasury Notes were issued that were intended to circulate for three years and paid 6% interest compounded semi-annually. The obverse is similar to the 1863 one-year Interest Bearing Note. • 1869: A new United States Note was issued with a portrait of
Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture on the right. Although this note is technically a United States Note, appeared on it instead of . • 1870: A new Gold Certificate with a portrait of
Thomas Hart Benton on the left side of the obverse was issued. The note was one-sided. • 1870:
National Gold Bank Notes were issued specifically for payment in gold coin by participating national gold banks. The obverse featured vignettes of Perry leaving the
USS St. Lawrence and an allegorical figure to the right; the reverse featured a vignette of U.S. gold coins. • 1875: The reverse of the
Series of 1869 United States Note was redesigned. Also, was changed to on the obverse. This note was issued again in
Series of 1878 and
Series of 1880. • 1878: The first
silver certificate was issued with a portrait of
James Monroe on the left side of the obverse. The reverse was printed in black ink, unlike any other U.S. Federal Government issued bill. • 1882: A new and revised Gold Certificate was issued. The obverse was partially the same as the
Series 1870 gold certificate; the border design, portrait of Thomas H. Benton, and large word , and gold-colored ink behind the serial numbers were all retained. The reverse featured a perched bald eagle and the
Roman numeral for 100, C. • 1890: Treasury or "Coin Notes" were issued for government purchases of silver bullion from the silver mining industry. The note featured a portrait of Admiral
David G. Farragut. The note was also nicknamed a "watermelon note" because of the watermelon-shaped 0's in the large numeral '100' on the reverse; the large numeral '100' was surrounded by an ornate design that occupied almost the entire note. • 1891: The reverse of the
Series of 1890 Treasury Note was redesigned because the Treasury felt that it was too "busy" which would make it too easy to counterfeit. More open space was incorporated into the new design. • 1891: The obverse of the Silver Certificate was slightly revised with some aspects of the design changed. The reverse was completely redesigned and also began to be printed in green ink. • 1902: An extremely rare
National Banknote was issued. It had a blue seal, and
John J. Knox on the obverse, and two men and an eagle on top of a shield on the reverse. • 1914: The first
Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the obverse and allegorical figures representing labor, plenty, America, peace, and commerce on the reverse. • 1922: The
Series of 1880 Gold Certificate was re-issued with an obligation to the right of the bottom-left serial number on the obverse.
Small size notes (6.14 × 2.61 in ≅ 156 × 66 mm) File:US-$100-GC-1934-Fr.2406.jpg|Both views (obverse and reverse) of the
Series of 1934 Gold Certificate File:US United States Note 1966.jpg|Front of a
Series 1966 United States note File:Usdollar100front.jpg|Obverse of a
Series 2006A note File:Benjamin Franklin.PNG|
Joseph Duplessis portrait of Benjamin Franklin used on the bill from
Series 1928 until
Series 1995 File:Franklin-Benjamin-LOC.jpg|
H. B. Hall engraving of
Joseph Duplessis portrait of an older Benjamin Franklin used on the current bill since
Series 1996 File:US100DollarBills-Old&2013.jpg|Comparison between a
Series 1990 note and a
Series 2009A note • 1929: Under the
Series of 1928, all U.S. currency was changed to its
current size and began to carry a standardized design. All variations of the bill would carry the same portrait of Benjamin Franklin, same border design on the
obverse, and the same
reverse with a vignette of Independence Hall. The bill was issued as a
Federal Reserve Note with a green seal and serial numbers and as a
Gold Certificate with a golden seal and serial numbers. • 1933: As an emergency response to the
Great Depression, additional money was pumped into the American economy through Federal Reserve Bank Notes issued under
Series of 1929. This was the only small-sized bill that had a slightly different border design on the obverse. The serial numbers and seal on it were brown. • 1934: The
redeemable in gold clause was removed from Federal Reserve Notes due to the U.S. withdrawing from the
gold standard. • 1934: Special Gold Certificates were issued for non-public, Federal Reserve bank-to-bank transactions. These notes featured a reverse printed in orange instead of green like all other small-sized notes. The wording on the obverse was also changed to . • 1950: Many minor aspects on the obverse of the Federal Reserve Note were changed. Most noticeably, the treasury seal, gray numeral '100', and the Federal Reserve Seal were now smaller with small "spikes" added around the Federal Reserve seal, like the Treasury seal. • 1963: Because dollar bills were no longer redeemable in silver, beginning with
Series 1963A, was removed from the obverse of the Federal Reserve Note and the obligation was shortened to its current wording, . Also, United States national motto| was added to the reverse. • 1966: The first and only small-sized United States Note was issued with a red seal and serial numbers. It was the first of all United States currency to use the new U.S.
treasury seal with wording in
English instead of
Latin. Like the
Series 1963 and United States Notes, it lacked on the obverse and featured the motto on the reverse. The United States Note was issued due to legislation that specified a certain dollar amount of United States Notes that were to remain in circulation. Because the and United States Notes were soon to be discontinued, the dollar amount of United States Notes would drop, thus warranting the issuing of this note. United States Notes were last printed in 1969 and last issued in 1971. • 1990: The first new-age anti-counterfeiting measures were introduced under
Series 1990 with microscopic printing around Franklin's portrait and a metallic security strip on the left side of the bill. • March 25, 1996: The first major design change of the note since 1929 took place with the adoption of a contemporary style layout. The main intent of the new design was to deter counterfeiting, which had become more rampant following the rise of
computer printing and
image scanning technology. New security features included a
watermark of Franklin to the right side of the bill,
optically variable ink (OVI) that changed from green to black when viewed at different angles on the lower right corner '100', an enlarged and different portrait of Franklin, and hard-to-reproduce fine line printing around Franklin's portrait and Independence Hall. Older security features such as interwoven red and blue silk fibers, microprinting, and a plastic security thread (which glows pink [nominally red] under a
black light) were kept. The individual Federal Reserve Bank Seal with district letter was changed to a unified Federal Reserve System Seal along with an additional prefix letter being added to the serial number, w. The first of the
Series 1996 bills were produced in October 1995. • February 2007: The first bills (a shipment of 128,000
star notes from the
San Francisco FRB) from the Western Currency Facility in
Fort Worth, Texas, were produced, almost 16 years after the first notes from the facility were produced. The shipment makes the bill the most recently added production to the facility's lineup. 4.6 billion notes were produced at the facility with
Series 2006 and Cabral and Paulson signatures, including about 4.15 million star notes. • October 8, 2013: The newest bill was announced on April 21, 2010, and, because of printing problems, did not enter circulation until nearly three and a half years later, on October 8, 2013. In addition to design changes introduced in 1996, the obverse features the brown quill that was used to sign the Declaration of Independence; faint phrases from the Declaration of Independence; the
Syng inkstand's inkwell; a bell within the inkwell's image that appears and disappears depending on the angle at which the bill is viewed using
optically variable ink (OVI) and changes from copper to green; teal background color; a borderless portrait of Benjamin Franklin; a blue "3D security ribbon" (trademarked "Motion" by
Crane Currency) on which images of Liberty Bells shift into numerical designations of '100' as the note is tilted; and to the left of Franklin, small yellow '100's whose zeros form the
EURion constellation. The reverse features a large gradient '100' printed vertically on the right side, small yellow EURion '100's and has the fine lines removed from around the vignette of Independence Hall. These notes were issued as
Series 2009A with
Rios-Geithner signatures. Many of these changes are intended not only to thwart counterfeiting but to also make it easier to quickly check authenticity and help vision-impaired people. The first of the Series 2009 bills were produced in February 2010 while the
Series 2009A replacement banknote was first produced in September 2011.
Series dates Small size ==Withdrawal of large denomination bills ($500 and up)==