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US CURRENCY - NICE EXPLANATION
US CURRENCY -
EXPLANATION
US Coins and Currency
Value
|
Image
|
Obverse
|
Reverse
|
Coins
|
|||
Penny
1¢ |
 |
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President |
The Lincoln Memorial
|
Nickel
5¢ |
 |
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President |
Monticello
Jefferson's home |
Dime
10¢ |
 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President |
Olive Branch,
Torch, Oak Branch. |
Quarter
25¢ |
 |
George Washington
1st U.S. President |
American Bald Eagle
|
Half-Dollar
50¢ |
 |
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President |
The Presidential Seal
|
Silver Dollar
$1 |
 |
Susan B. Anthony
|
Apollo 11 Insignia, Eagle
|
Golden Dollar
$1 |
 |
Sacagawea
|
Soaring Eagle and 17
Stars
|
Currency
|
|||
$1
|
 |
George Washington
1st U.S. President |
The Great Seal of the
United States
|
$2
|
 |
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President |
Signing of the
Declaration of Independence
-or- Monticello |
$5
|
 |
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President |
Lincoln Memorial
|
$10
|
 |
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Treasury Secretary |
U.S. Treasury
|
$20
|
 |
Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President |
The White House
|
$50
|
 |
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President |
U.S. Capitol
|
$100
|
 |
Benjamin Franklin
|
Independence Hall
|
$500*
|
 |
William McKinley
25th U.S. President |
"Five Hundred
Dollars"
|
$1,000*
|
 |
Grover Cleveland
22nd/24th U.S. President |
"One Thousand
Dollars"
|
$5,000*
|
 |
James Madison
4th U.S. President |
"Five Thousand
Dollars"
|
$10,000*
|
 |
Salmon P. Chase
25th U.S. Treasury Secretary |
"Ten Thousand
Dollars"
|
$100,000*
|
 |
Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President |
"One Hundred
Thousand Dollars"
|
* no longer in circulation
|
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Money Facts
- Quarters, nickels, and dimes are currently made from
nickel and copper.
- Pennies are currently made from copper plated zinc.
- Coins with ridges were originally made with precious
metals. The ridges were used to easily detect people clipping or filing
off these precious metals.
- A U.S. Quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A
dime has 118 grooves.
- Lincoln faces to the right because the penny was an
adaptation of a plaque.
- E Pluribus Unum means
"Out of Many, One".
- On the back of a Roosevelt dime, the center torch
signifies liberty. The oak branch to the right signifies strength and
independence. The olive branch to the left signifies peace.
- On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the
upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the
"shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand
corner.
- The law prohibits portraits of living persons from
appearing on Government
Securities. - Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton.
This page printed from:
http://mistupid.com/currency/
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