Talk:Large-sized note

Differences

Do you have any differences between these and today's bills besides the ones already mentioned?? Please put them on the Large sized note page

Other countries

As for what someone added about other currencies, does this mean a country like Canada or Australia??

If someone extends the table...

In case someone extends the table of portraits and nicknames for large-sized notes, using "M-note" for the $1000 (which had Alexander Hamilton at that time,) to parallel "C-note" for the $100, please note the following:

The abbreviation Xmas for Christmas was originally a shortening where X represents the Greek letter chi. Nowadays, however, the letter X is better interpreted as a mathematical variable than a Greek letter, and thus people often think that it drops Christ from Christmas.

Something similar is true of "M-note". For hundreds of years, "M" was a symbol for 1000 for hundreds of years, from "mill", a Latin word for a thousand, paralleling C ("cent") for a hundred. However, the letter "M" is nowadays more frequently interpreted as a symbol for a million, standing for "mega", paralleling K ("kilo") for a thousand. Thus, it is important to take note that the computer did not exist during the time of the large-sized notes.

Also, if someone asks for a $1 bill or a $2 bill, please simply say, "The $1 and $2 bills were not made by the Federal Reserve in those days." 66.32.126.130 14:57, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bad News

http://www.currencygallery.org is dead now. Google, however, still reveals it as a valid site. What happened?? Any other reference tool to use?? 66.245.29.166 15:15, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Update

I was able to find depictions of the obverse for these notes at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. They have been updated in the denominations table. Reference: http://www.frbsf.org/currency/bills.html#stability 11-20-04

Contradiction

The numbers mentioned here and elsewhere contradict.

	Large-sized note	$1	$2	$5	$10	$50	$100
Large	7.4218 x 3.125	7.375 x 3.125	7.375 x 3.125	7.42 x 3.125	7.42 x 3.125	7.42 x 3.125	7.42 x 3.125
Small	6.14 x 2.61	6.125 x 2.625	6.125 x 2.625	6.14 x 2.61	6.14 x 2.61	6.14 x 2.61	6.14 x 2.61

It's not the first time I see either version. Experts on this matter, please help. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Yah, this is a matter of fraction conversions vs. decimals from different sources. Due to manufacturing techniques the sizes of large size notes actually varied so an exact number really isn't appropriate. --Kurt 08:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the sizes varies. But let's use official numbers found at [1]. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 02:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

The link stated above for moneyfactory.gov does not work as of March 20 2016. Edison (talk) 21:48, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

The US government says that present currency is 6.14 by 2.61 inches. See [2]. 6.125 x 2.625 is just plain wrong. The articles for present US currency gave the dimensions in mm to 6 digits of precision, which is inappropriate, since the government does not state that degree of precision, nor would it be practical to try and cut it that precisely. I have changed the infoboxes to 3 digits of precision but I left the dimensions in mm for the present, since that's how I found them. It would seem appropriate to list the dimensions of US currency in inches when the US government specifies them in inches. Edison (talk) 21:48, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Agree with using inches for US-related articles, but disagree that that particular sources is authoritative versus a presentation using an approximation. The actual size may have been originally specified in 1/64 units, which would make more sense (and that is the size given in the infobox).

The moneyfactory.gov site is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090110021046/http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/106

Please continue discussing in Talk:United_States_one-dollar_bill#Size if possible. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:59, 21 March 2016 (UTC)