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

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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" * no longer in circulation Money Facts Quarters, nickels, and dimes are currently made from nickel and copper.

Pennies are currently made from copper plated zinc.

Coins with ridges were originally made with precious metals. The ridges were used to easily detect people clipping or filing off these precious metals.

A U.S. Quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A dime has 118 grooves.

Lincoln faces to the right because the penny was an adaptation of a plaque.

E Pluribus Unum means "Out of Many, One".

On the back of a Roosevelt dime, the center torch signifies liberty. The oak branch to the right signifies strength and independence. The olive branch to the left signifies peace.

On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

The law prohibits portraits of living persons from appearing on Government

Securities.

Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton.





