Subject: Trivia - Presidential Portraits on U.S. Notes

Last-Revised: 19 Apr 2006
Contributed-By: Paul A. Rydelek, Chris Lott (contact me)

Just in case you were curious, here is a list of the presidential portraits and other decoration on U.S. currency and Treasury instruments.

U.S. Currency
Denomination	Portrait	Embellishment on back
$1	George Washington	Great Seal of U.S.
$2	Thomas Jefferson	Signers of the Declaration
$5	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln Memorial
$10	Alexander Hamilton	U.S. Treasury
$20	Andrew Jackson	White House
$50	Ulysses S. Grant	U.S. Capitol
$100	Benjamin Franklin	Independence Hall
$500	William McKinley	Ornate denominational marking
$1,000	Grover Cleveland	Ornate denominational marking
$5,000	James Madison	Ornate denominational marking
$10,000	Salmon P. Chase	Ornate denominational marking
$100,000	Woodrow Wilson	Ornate denominational marking

U.S. Treasury Instruments
Denomination	Savings Bond	Treas. Bills	Treas. Bonds	Treas. Notes
$50	Washington		Jefferson
$75	Adams
$100	Jefferson		Jackson
$200	Madison
$500	Hamilton		Washington
$1,000	Franklin	H. McCulloch	Lincoln	Lincoln
$5,000	Revere	J.G. Carlisie	Monroe	Monroe
$10,000	J. Wilson	J. Sherman	Cleveland	Cleveland
$50,000		C. Glass
$100,000		A. Gallatin	Grant	Grant
$1,000,000		O. Wolcott	T. Roosevelt	T. Roosevelt
$100,000,000				McKinley

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