7 Facts About The $100 Bill...........
1. Independence Hall is on the back of the bill. The time on the clock shows 2:22, but the numeral four on the clock is shown as “IV”, while real Independence Hall’s clock has a numeral showing “IIII.”
2. Benjamin Franklin and the $10 bill’s Alexander Hamilton are the only people on U.S. bills who weren’t Presidents.
3. The $100 bill has been the largest bill in circulation since 1969, when the $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 and $100,000 were retired.
4. In 1869, Abraham Lincoln appeared on the $100 bill. The next year, Thomas Hart Benton was on the front. He was a Missouri Senator who was real big into westward expansion. He also once had a “frontier brawl” with Andrew Jackson, where he injured Jackson. He also killed other people in duels. And he hated paper money.
5. In 1890, Admiral David Farragut was on the bill. He’s the guy who said, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
6. Benjamin Franklin first appeared on the bill in 1914. That song by Puff Daddy came out in 1996.
7. During their time on the Mets, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry once threw a bunch of $100 bills out of their limo onto the street. Probably because they were coked out of their minds.
H/T DML
Sunday, 31 May 2009
All about the Benjamins.......
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#2: The old $10,000 bill had Salmon P. Chase on the front, printed from 1928 through 1946. The federal banking system was his idea, and he backed the idea of paper currency.
He was the 6th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Secretary of the Treasury, governor of Ohio and senator from Ohio.
Sounds like he couldn't hold down a job.
Salmon P Chase (Lincoln's Sec of Treasury -- I think he introduced federal paper money) was on the 10,000 bill.
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