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"
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