Did you know that the United States now produces more $100 bills than any other denomination? “The $100 bill overtook the $1 bill … six years ago,” Oliver Bullough reports in Mother Jones, “and the trend has accelerated since: At the end of 2022 there were 18.5 billion $100s out there, and the Treasury Department printed another 1.5 billion in 2023. Of the total value of currency in circulation, 80 percent consists of notes with Benjamin Franklin’s face on them.”The Benjamin is king—even though,