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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Old Money
by Sandy Wood - April 27, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Washington is on the $1, Jefferson on the $2, Lincoln the $5, Hamilton the $10, Jackson the $20, Grant the $50, and Franklin the $100 billYou don’t see $2 bills like this very often, but they’re legal tender and are still printed every few years. The reason I’ve shown you this particular currency note – and its portrait of Thomas Jefferson – is to help facilitate today’s Brain Game. (Mouse over the image if you need a quick refresher of who appears on which denomination.) Good luck!

Take the men whose portraits currently appear on the

$1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills,

and place them in order from oldest (born first) to youngest.

Here is the SOLUTION.
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Comments (5)

  1. You forgot 1822 – Grant ($50), which would firmly put him as the baby of the family.

    posted by Jeff on 4-27-2009 at 8:27 am

  2. I switched Jefferson and Hamilton. Still pretty good for not having the images of bills right in front of me. The rollover image didn’t seem to work for me…

    posted by Nick on 4-27-2009 at 10:54 am

  3. What about

    $500: William McKinley
    $1,000: Grover Cleveland
    $5,000: James Madison
    $10,000: Salmon P. Chase
    $100,000: Woodrow Wilson

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency

    posted by HP on 4-27-2009 at 12:50 pm

  4. That would have added a twist, HP.

    FWIW, I didn’t include any of the larger-denomination bills since (1) few people have seen them, and (2) they were taken out of circulation 40 years ago in 1969.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 4-27-2009 at 12:56 pm

  5. Yay! I got it!

    I only had to peek at the $10 – for some reason I blanked out on Hamilton…

    This brings up a question that might make for a good article — How did they choose who would be on U.S. currency (bills and coins) and for which denomination?

    posted by Nerak on 4-27-2009 at 1:12 pm

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