Before the Civil War, the only money issued by the U.S. were gold and silver coins, only coins were legal tender.  That is, payment in that form had to be accepted.  Paper currency in the form of bank notes was issued by private banks.  These notes were redeemable for U.S. currency at the bank’s office (in East Stanwood or Conway).  Greenbacks were the U.S.’s 1sdt paper currency (printed with green on the back), issued by the U.S. during the Civil War.  Since the 1930s the highest denominated American currency has been the $100 note.  America is one of the few countries in the World that uses the same size bills for every denomination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency
https://mycreditunion.gov/financial-resources/history-united-states-currency
https://numismatics.org/a-history-of-american-currency/
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2013-Conditional-Use-Permit-Narrative.pdf

If you have a $100,000 U.S. paper currency “bill” (like a dollar bill) it will most likely be:

counterfeit
issued before 1930
Canadian

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