Series E savings bonds issued 1942: current value
Official redemption values for every issue month and paper denomination, July 2026 — from the U.S. Treasury's savings bond value file.
savingsbondcheck.com — Series E savings bond values, issued 1942 — redemption values as of July 2026 — data: U.S. Treasury
Official Treasury value file data
- A $50 Series E savings bond issued May 1942 is worth $192.00 as of , per the U.S. Treasury's savings bond value file.
- That bond sold for $37.50 (paper Series E bonds cost 75% of face value), so it has earned $154.50 in interest.
- Every Series E bond issued in 1942 has reached final maturity and no longer earns interest — but it remains redeemable at full value with no deadline.
- Treasury has published values through November 2026; this bond's value is unchanged over that window.
$192.00Status
Matured
stopped May 1982$100 bond since 1992
Redemption values by issue month and denomination
Every paper denomination redeems at (face ÷ $25) × the per-$25 value Treasury publishes, so these figures are exact. Click a row to highlight it. Not every denomination was offered in every year; values scale the same regardless.
| Issue month | $25 | $50 | $75 | $100 | $200 | $500 | $1,000 | $10,000 | Stops earning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1942 | $94.35 | $188.70 | $283.05 | $377.40 | $754.80 | $1,887.00 | $3,774.00 | $37,740.00 | January 1982 |
| February 1942 | $94.35 | $188.70 | $283.05 | $377.40 | $754.80 | $1,887.00 | $3,774.00 | $37,740.00 | February 1982 |
| March 1942 | $94.35 | $188.70 | $283.05 | $377.40 | $754.80 | $1,887.00 | $3,774.00 | $37,740.00 | March 1982 |
| April 1942 | $94.35 | $188.70 | $283.05 | $377.40 | $754.80 | $1,887.00 | $3,774.00 | $37,740.00 | April 1982 |
| May 1942 | $96.00 | $192.00 | $288.00 | $384.00 | $768.00 | $1,920.00 | $3,840.00 | $38,400.00 | May 1982 |
| June 1942 | $97.45 | $194.90 | $292.35 | $389.80 | $779.60 | $1,949.00 | $3,898.00 | $38,980.00 | June 1982 |
| July 1942 | $97.45 | $194.90 | $292.35 | $389.80 | $779.60 | $1,949.00 | $3,898.00 | $38,980.00 | July 1982 |
| August 1942 | $97.45 | $194.90 | $292.35 | $389.80 | $779.60 | $1,949.00 | $3,898.00 | $38,980.00 | August 1982 |
| September 1942 | $97.45 | $194.90 | $292.35 | $389.80 | $779.60 | $1,949.00 | $3,898.00 | $38,980.00 | September 1982 |
| October 1942 | $97.45 | $194.90 | $292.35 | $389.80 | $779.60 | $1,949.00 | $3,898.00 | $38,980.00 | October 1982 |
| November 1942 | $98.40 | $196.80 | $295.20 | $393.60 | $787.20 | $1,968.00 | $3,936.00 | $39,360.00 | November 1982 |
| December 1942 | $99.95 | $199.90 | $299.85 | $399.80 | $799.60 | $1,999.00 | $3,998.00 | $39,980.00 | December 1982 |
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Source: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data — Savings Bonds Value Files (v2/accounting/od/sb_value), redemption period 2026-07.
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Methodology: values are the official per-$25 redemption values from Treasury's savings bond value file for the current redemption month, multiplied by face ÷ $25 (exact). The build verifies row counts, series coverage, value ranges, I-bond monotonicity, and the EE 20-year doubling guarantee before publishing; it refuses to deploy if any check fails. Download the data: current values CSV · full 1992–present CSV.