President on $1 one dollar bill: George Washington
George Washington is also on quarter dollar coin
President on $2 two dollar bill: Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is also on the nickel (5 cent) coin
President on $5 five dollar bill: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is also on the "penny" (one cent)
Face on $10 Ten dollar bill: Alexander Hamilton. He was not a President.
President on $20 twenty dollar bill: Andrew Jackson
President on $50 fifty dollar bill: Ulysses S. Grant
Face on $100 One hundred dollar bill: Benjamin Franklin. He was not a President.
Benjamin Franklin is on half dollar coins minted from 1948 to 1963
The following denominations are no longer issued, and are only available from currency dealers:
President on $500 five hundred dollar bill: William McKinley
President on $1,000 one thousand dollar bill: Grover Cleveland
President on $5,000 five thousand dollar bill: James Madison
Face on $10,000 Ten thousand dollar bill: Salmon P. Chase. He was not a President
President on $100,000 one hundred thousand dollar bill: Woodrow Wilson
$1,000,000 dollar bill - does not exist - novelty/joke items only.
Purely an artistic decision. And not all presidents are facing any particular direction. Jefferson faces forward on the new 5¢ pieces issued starting in 2006 as do many of the images on Presidential $1 coins, for example.
Paper money is made from a blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen fibers to make it last longer.
US currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton.
Paper money was most popular around the 1650s, and it was made out of flattened cotton covered in wax, printed in ink. If you are talking about WAY back, Indians had stretched out animal hide, and wrote with their blood on the hide as paper money. Gross, but true.....
FDR is on a coin, not currency (= paper money) - the dime.
Neither are all the presidents on paper money and not all paper money have pictures of presidents. For example Ben Franklin is on the hundred.
I am guessing you are thinking of Mt. Rushmore . You could also be thinking of coins and paper money and older US stamps.
In the US, only Washington($1), Jefferson ($2), Lincoln $5), Jackson ($20) and Grant ($50) currently appear.
Crane Paper in Massachusetts.
yes, Us money is made out of a type of special money.
US paper money is called "greenbacks" because the images are printed in green ink on the back.
They are not all presidents, e.g. Franklin, Chase.
US paper money is not printed on standard paper. It is printed on a specialized cotton blend and contains no paper.
US paper money is actually not paper, it is fabric. You can put it in a lingerie bag and wash it in the washing machine.
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yes because china made paper money first.
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