In the early 1900s, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel, a Ford Model-T could fetch $290, and you could rent an apartment for as low as $4 a month.
So, it may seem like today we should have larger bills to make purchasing our much higher-priced items more efficient. The highest value of denomination currently in production in the U.S. is the $100 bill, but in decades past, the Federal Reserve has issued $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and even $100,000 bills.
The U.S. stopped printing the $1,000 bill and larger denominations by 1946, but these bills continued circulating until the Federal Reserve decided to recall them in 1969.