Hello Historians and History Addicts,
I have just a few questions regarding the legal tender of the 1920s, which I know was a time of hyperinflation and the tossing around of money like it was nothing. Once again, I am asking for United States currency. But my question more has to do with the money itself.
1st: What would be considered a large sum of money in that time? Like to have in a bank account?
2nd: Can anyone direct me to a site that has pictures of both the front and the back of legal tender notes? I tried searching on Google, but I had a tough time finding what I was looking for.
3rd: Any sort of interesting information you may have on 1920s money that you're just itching to tell me, I'm all ears.
Thank you so much for reading this post and I wish you all well.
Sincerely, Jacob S. Tucker
The Series of 1928 was the first series to feature the design most familiar to Americans today, still seen on the $1 bill. Wikipedia has high-resolution images of each banknote, silver certificate, and gold certificate issued in that series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_1928_(United_States_Currency)
Hope that helps!
donckelly.com has a great selection of note scans, that happen to be for sale.