 DATE: Marions stolen money was in $1,000 bills. The Federal Reserve  stopped distributing $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills in 1969.  While these denominations are still legal tender, they are removed  from circulation and destroyed as the Federal Reserve Banks receive  them. If any such denominations still exist, they are rare and worth  far more than face value to currency collectors, and thus would not  be in general circulation in 1998.