Who are the people on the American banknotes and coins?
This may seem like a dumb question to Americans as I am sure you learn this at school!
I am an ESL teacher (not American) teaching in Japan. We had a class about shopping and money....especially the US dollar. The students wanted to know who the people were on the banknotes and coins. Also one teacher noticed that the head on the penny was facing the opposite way than those on the other coins - why is that? I`ve tried to do a search without much luck. Maybe I need sites for school children?
I`d appreciate any information or links that can help me explain about the money.
Thanks
peschele12007-05-17T06:49:40Z
Favorite Answer
$1 bill = George Washington $5 bill = Abraham Lincoln $10 bill = Alexander Hamilton $20 bill = Andrew Jackson $50 bill = Ulysses S. Grant $100 bill = Benjamine Franklin
Penny (1 cent) = Abraham Lincoln Nickle (5 cent) = Thomas Jefferson Dime (10 cent) = Franklin D. Rossevelt Quarter (25 cent) = George Washington Half-dollar (50 cent) = John F. Kennedy
Lincoln is facing to the right because that was the direction he was facing in the photograph Victor David Brenner used to make his bas-relief for the penny. To see this photo, follow the link that I have attached...
The paper notes have pictures of former presidents of our country on them ($1-Washington; $2-Jefferson; $5-Lincoln; $10-Hamilton; $20-Jackson; $50-Grant) Some of the same people appear on the coinage, but all, with the exception of Ben Franklin, on the $100 bill, were presidents. And the reason Lincoln is facing right instead of left is because the coin was copied from a photograph of him facing that way.
This united states of america wasn't depending by technique of so-referred to as close by individuals. It became depending by technique of Europeans. AFA Linclon and provide are worried, i imagine they were placed on the expenditures in simple terms to taunt the South and again, so-referred to as close by individuals were no longer a huge area of the U. S. civil conflict both. Above poster - Ben Franklin wasn't a president