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The $10,000 bill featured Salmon P. Chase

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You know Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin, but you probably haven't formally met Salmon. Salmon P. Chase was Abraham Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary and the man responsible for introducing the first modern paper notes. For his efforts, he was immortalized on the $10,000 bill, a denomination last printed in 1945 and largely hunted to extinction by collectors.

The $10,000 bill featured Salmon P. Chase
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