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In 1991, a 12-coin silver five-dollar series was issued in the Bahamas commemorating the 500th anniversary of European discovery of the Americas. Three of those coins showed images of U.S. presidents, with the coat of arms of the Bahamas on the obverse side. Thomas Jefferson. $5, 1991, silver, with Independence Hall – Declaration of ...
Abraham Lincoln was portrayed on the 1861 $10 Demand Note; Salmon Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, approved his own portrait for the 1862 $1 Legal Tender Note; Winfield Scott was depicted on Interest Bearing Notes during the early 1860s; William P. Fessenden (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury) appeared on fractional currency ...
Other subsequent versions were produced in 1878, 1880 and 1891. In 1913, a large-size version of the bill was issued as a Federal Reserve Note. In 1882, the note was issued as a gold certificate. In 1928 the treasury began to issued small-size bills and the $1,000 denomination featured US President Grover Cleveland. The small-size was issued in ...
As a way of honoring more presidents, the U.S. Mint began issuing Presidential Dollar coins in the 2000s. Most are worth about face value, but a couple are valued in six figures due to errors .
In 1861, the US began issuing Demand Notes, which were the first paper money issued by the United States whose main purpose was to circulate. And since 1914, the US has issued Federal Reserve Notes. Since 1971, Federal Reserves Notes have been the only banknotes of the United States dollar that have been issued.
The United States two-dollar bill (US$2) is a current denomination of United States currency. A portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States (1801–1809), is featured on the obverse of the note. The reverse features an engraving of John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence (c. 1818). [3]
The United States one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill (US$100,000) is a former denomination of United States currency issued from 1934 to 1935. The bill, which features President Woodrow Wilson, was created as a large denomination note for gold transactions between Federal Reserve Banks; it never circulated publicly and its private possession is illegal.
Close-up of George Washington on one dollar bill. ... In 1981, he became the 40th president of the US at age 69. Bill Clinton was a grocer and a comic book salesman. DEM 2016 Bill Clinton.