When they came back to Massachusetts, they were caught up in the Red Scare. Many of their friends and fellow anarchists had already been arrested and were being deported. When federal investigators found a list of subscribers to Galleaniâs newspaper, Sacco and Vanzetti came to their attention.
This leaves the $100 Federal Reserve note as the nationâs highest-denomination circulating banknote. The $100 bill, featuring a portrait of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, is one of the worldâs most popular and widely-traded forms of paper currency.
The largest denomination bill printed by the US, however, was the $100,000 gold certificate, with a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson (shown at left courtesy the National Museum of American History). Only 42,000 of these were printed in the 1930s for use within the Federal Reserve.