I know yours is an American site, but it also leaks into the rest of the world ... where I am. Now, I think that is Benjamin Franklin, third from the right, so I am guessing that the others may not be Presidents either. So maybe the joke is mainly lost on me, and the rest of US not in the U.S. LOL.
Jackson and Grant were presidents. Franklin and Hamilton were not. See, it would have been easy to have four presidents on the money, if they had used a one (Washington) and a five (Lincoln) instead of the ten and hundred.
William, of the four men pictured, two are indeed former Presidents. From left to right — Andrew Jackson (7th president from 1829-1837), who is on the $20 bill, and Ulysses S. Grant (18th president, 1869-1877), found on the $50 bill. The other two are, as you assumed, Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers; a noted statesman and ambassador, but never achieved the presidency), who graces the $100 bill; and Alexander Hamilton (another Founding Father who, like Franklin, never reached the White House but did beoome the first Secretary of the Treasury; best known for being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr), whose likeness can be found on the $10 bill.
Three other presidents — George Washington (the first president, who held office from 1789 to 1797), Thomas Jefferson (2nd president, from 1797-1801), and Abraham Lincoln (the 16th president, in office from 1861 to 1865) — can be found on the $1, $2, and $5 bills respectively. I guess whoever created this ad didn't think such common, low-denomination bills would be as eye-catching. Or maybe they thought that you couldn't play much with such low-value currency.
And just for the record, America also used to have a $500 (which showed William McKinley, the 25th president, who held office from 1897 to 1901) as well as a $1000 bill (featuring Grover Cleveland, the 22nd/24th president of the US, who served two separate terms from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897) and a $5000 bill (displaying the portrait of James Madison, the 4th president, from 1809-1817), and while there may still be some of these bills out there (and they are still legal tender!), no new examples of these have been issued since the 1940s and they were officially retired and removed from general circulation in 1969.
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Note to advertising department — you ARE aware that Franklin was never a president, right?
-"BB"-
I know yours is an American site, but it also leaks into the rest of the world ... where I am.
Now, I think that is Benjamin Franklin, third from the right, so I am guessing that the others may not be Presidents either.
So maybe the joke is mainly lost on me, and the rest of US not in the U.S. LOL.
Jackson and Grant were presidents. Franklin and Hamilton were not. See, it would have been easy to have four presidents on the money, if they had used a one (Washington) and a five (Lincoln) instead of the ten and hundred.
William, of the four men pictured, two are indeed former Presidents. From left to right — Andrew Jackson (7th president from 1829-1837), who is on the $20 bill, and Ulysses S. Grant (18th president, 1869-1877), found on the $50 bill. The other two are, as you assumed, Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers; a noted statesman and ambassador, but never achieved the presidency), who graces the $100 bill; and Alexander Hamilton (another Founding Father who, like Franklin, never reached the White House but did beoome the first Secretary of the Treasury; best known for being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr), whose likeness can be found on the $10 bill.
Three other presidents — George Washington (the first president, who held office from 1789 to 1797), Thomas Jefferson (2nd president, from 1797-1801), and Abraham Lincoln (the 16th president, in office from 1861 to 1865) — can be found on the $1, $2, and $5 bills respectively. I guess whoever created this ad didn't think such common, low-denomination bills would be as eye-catching. Or maybe they thought that you couldn't play much with such low-value currency.
And just for the record, America also used to have a $500 (which showed William McKinley, the 25th president, who held office from 1897 to 1901) as well as a $1000 bill (featuring Grover Cleveland, the 22nd/24th president of the US, who served two separate terms from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897) and a $5000 bill (displaying the portrait of James Madison, the 4th president, from 1809-1817), and while there may still be some of these bills out there (and they are still legal tender!), no new examples of these have been issued since the 1940s and they were officially retired and removed from general circulation in 1969.
-"BB"-
And Jackson was supposed to be replaced with Harriet Tubman this year, but Trump put that off for a few years.
I think it's called Bad Newspaper for a reason. . .
Thanks, BB.
I wish we had $1000 bills, that would mean I only had to count a few notes each week when I get paid.
Like I said, ... I wish.
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