File:500 USD note; series of 1934; obverse.jpg

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500 United States dollars bill (not in use today)

Series: 1928 & 1934

Portrait: William McKinley

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This image depicts a unit of currency issued by the United States of America. If this is an image of paper currency or a coin not listed here, it is solely a work of the United States Government, is ineligible for US copyright, and is therefore in the public domain in the United States.
Fraudulent use of this image is punishable under applicable counterfeiting laws.

As listed by the the U.S. Currency Education Program at money illustrations, the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR 411), permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:
1. The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
2. The illustration is one-sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
Certain coins contain copyrights licensed to the U.S. Mint and owned by third parties or assigned to and owned by the U.S. Mint [1]. For the United States Mint circulating coin design use policy, see [2]; for the policy on the 50 State Quarters, see [3].

Also: COM:ART #Photograph of an old coin found on the Internet

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:07, 10 November 2011	1,842 × 778 (1.49 MB)	Locke Cole	higher resolution
	01:40, 28 March 2010	1,229 × 525 (257 KB)	TerraFrost	better, higher resolution image
	14:03, 31 January 2006	415 × 162 (58 KB)	Red devil 666	500 dollars bill (not in use today) Series: 1928 & 1934 Portrait: William McKinley Category:United States bills {{Template:PD-USGov-money}} http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/5/42/160