$100 bill has Franklin.
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I really jacksoned that up
you’re such a munson
Andrew Jackson is on the $20, Benjamin is $100.
Apparently, its all about the Benjamins....
..baby.
He was so great, he didn't need to become president.
...could have sworn it was All About the Pentiums.
With that kind of up to date information, maybe you shouldn't vote.
What kind of civics literacy test would you recommend I use to determine if I should vote?
If you grew up in the States, you would have learned who Franklin was somewhere in the 5th to 8th grade public schooling range, so I guess neither of those things happened in your case?
He would have been President if not for Obama!
Huh. I hadn't really thought that someone would think that being on currency meant that someone is a President until now. I guess the other common current bills do.
Not all coins and bills have had Presidents.
The current dollar coin, which isn't terribly commonly used, though I do occasionally get one in change, and mostly from subways, has Liberty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Silver_Eagle
There have been other figures in the past, like Susan B. Anthony.
The hundred dollar bill, which some stores don't accept, obnoxiously enough, but my most-used ATM likes to hand out, has Hamilton, who also wasn't a President.
Past printed bill designs remain valid currency in the US, and bills like the $10,000 bill don't have Presidents.
Hamilton is on the $10. This whole post is wrecking my brain. Benjamin is, theoretically famously, on the $100.
After I first read the post, I thought 10, 100, easy typo. But then saw hundred was written out. And every place accepts 10s.
Ten dollar bill has Hamilton on it…
I don't think it's neccesarily just 'on currency must imply he was a president'.
But rather that Franklin and Hamilton both are involved in a lot of those early USA events alongside your Washingtons and Jeffersons. Given their enduring popularity and heavy involvement in US politics, it is a little unintuitive to realize they weren't presidents.
There's the Sacajawea dollar coins
Very good, Gareth.
*Gary
He was totally a president though. (Of Pennsylvania)
Neither is Hamilton on the $5 bill.
That term sorta makes me wish trump was on currency.
