Never, because bills are not minted. Coins are minted, bills are printed.
The first federally-issued $5 bills were printed in 1862. They were red-seal United States Notes, a series that continued for a century.
Before that $5 bills were issued by states and local banks, and there were also federal "demand notes" in that denomination.
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