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:
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.
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.
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…
There’s the Sacajawea dollar coins
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.