Penny: Abraham Lincoln
Nickel: Thomas Jefferson
Dime: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quarter: George Washington
Half dollar: John F. Kennedy
Large dollar: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Small dollar: Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea
Presidential dollar: George Washington through Chester A. Arthur (as of March 2012)
the presidents.
Abraham Lincoln
Susan B. Anthony, Statue of Liberty, Sacajawea
Coins have faces on them to honor that person , statesmen , or president , and they symbolize the country that they were issued by.
ben franklin Patrick Henry
The Lincoln penny of 1909 was the first US coin with a president's face on it.
The patterns on coinage are made by squeezing the coins metal blank between the faces of two hard presses into which the negative of the coins faces have been etched (called dies).
The US Congress passed a law that ordered the US mint to issue these coins. The plan was to get people to use the one-dollar coins in place of the paper dollar bills and save millions in replacement costs. ( I do not know which Congressmen or senators pushed for the law.)
The value of coins comes from how old they are, the condition, and the metal they are made from. Some older coins have different faces because the leaders of countries change over time.
I am guessing you are thinking of Mt. Rushmore . You could also be thinking of coins and paper money and older US stamps.
The US Mint produces circulating coins, commemorative coins, and bullion coins for the United States.
No, most US coins are not magnetic.