Right. I believe it was for war debts. I think they only made a few and were never circulated. Still fun trivia though. And considering this website is trivia website, I think they should be included.
Yeah... seems almost insulting to put them on money over Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams, or Woodrow Wilson. Though perhaps when printed Wilson was considered too recent. They could have swapped in the other two, though. Or even Polk.
A google search turned up the answer that Sec. of Treasury Andrew Mellon chose all the people who appear on paper currency, and he chose the people he most admired. BTW, I have several $100,000 bills but Art Linkletter is on them.
pretty easy for a former coin collector. 2:51 left with 100%. agree with former comments that you may as well add all the other bills that used to be in circulation.
Of course now the $1 gold coins feature many different presidents, not just Sacagawea. I have a Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Garfield, Fillmore, Pierce, Hayes, and Taylor right here in front of me.
If you are not American, it gets more difficult after a while as so many of the quizzes are about basketball, baseball or American Football, which many people outside of the USA have little knowledge of
I think this quiz would be improved by including all the denominations of coins and bills. Because of the duplication, it would have to be set up as an "Answer must correspond to highlighted yellow box," style quiz, but many more questions could be added.
Why not call a cent by its proper name rather than the slang use of penny? I didn't see "buck", "sawbuck" or "double-sawbuck" on the quiz so why "penny"? Pennies were used by the tyrannical government our forefathers so desperately wanted to be freed from. Our numismatic history goes back to the Coinage Act of 1792 and from Day One, it was called a cent, as in one per cent of a dollar. Let's embrace the name "cent" while we still have it around. There, I'm done...
What about the James Garfield dollar coin, the 10 dollar bill that's going to be printed with Sojourner Truth on it, and the Woodrow Wilson 100000 dollar bill?
Quizmaster just wanted to avoid duplicate answers. George Washington is on the $1 bill and 25 cent coin. Abraham Lincoln is on the one cent piece and $5 bill. Thomas Jefferson is on the 5 cent piece and the $2 bill. The present dollar coins are rarely seen in circulation. They are very unpopular. They are mostly seen in collector sets from the US Mint. I also think the Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea dollars are just ugly. Those coin were designed and put into circulation just to be politically correct.
Yeah because those women really have nothing to do with American history. They're just forced on people for doing minor things. In fact women have never contributed to anything important and now they use political correctness to be included everywhere. *facepalm*
This should definitely include the $1 and $5 bills.
Potentially non Americans after doing this quiz would know there is a discontinued $1000 bill with Grover Cleveland on it but would not be able to tell you Washington is on the dollar note.
Sacagawea is on the gold dollar
The $500 and $1000 dollar bills aren't in circulation anymore. If you are adding ones in circulation add:
$5000 James Madison
$10000 Salmon P. Chase
$100000 Woodrow Wilson
Potentially non Americans after doing this quiz would know there is a discontinued $1000 bill with Grover Cleveland on it but would not be able to tell you Washington is on the dollar note.