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US dollar

In circulation in 19 countries and territories

ISO code: USD
Symbol: $
Minor unit: 100
Notes: 7
Issued by: Federal Reserve

Notes and coins in circulation

US dollar: what each denomination is worth

$1green€0.87
$2green€1.74
$5green€4.36
$10green€8.72
$20greenATM€17.44
$50green€43.59
$100green€87.18

The US dollar’s largest current denomination is $100: the 18th most valuable top note among the 150 circulating currencies we have verified, where the median is $27.18.

ATM commonly dispensed by cash machines

Bars are scaled to face value on a log scale, not to physical size. Colours are the issuer’s own. Converted at mid-market reference rates; what a counter pays is always less.

Notes	Colour	Size (mm)	Portrait	Security features
$1	green	155.96 × 66.29	George Washington	Raised Printing
$2	green	155.96 × 66.29	Thomas Jefferson	Raised Printing
$5	green	155.96 × 66.29	Abraham Lincoln	Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$10	green	155.96 × 66.29	Alexander Hamilton	Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$20	green	155.96 × 66.29	Andrew Jackson	Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$50	green	155.96 × 66.29	Ulysses S. Grant	Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$100	green	155.96 × 66.29	Benjamin Franklin	3-D Security Ribbon, Bell in the Inkwell, Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing

Getting cash

US cash machines overwhelmingly dispense $20 notes; some offer $50 and $100. All US banknotes are the same size and carry no tactile markings, so denominations cannot be told apart by touch.

Telling a real note from a fake

Security features are designed to be checked by hand in a few seconds, tilt it, feel it, hold it to the light. These are the features Federal Reserve publishes for the US dollar.

$1: Raised Printing
$2: Raised Printing
$5: Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$10: Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$20: Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing
$50: Portrait Watermark, Color-Shifting Ink, Security Thread, Microprinting, Raised Printing