Who are they? And what did they do to deserve to have their images on US currency?|||Currency refers to paper money not coins.
The one hundred-dollar bill has Benjamin Franklin on it. He was known to be a U.S. statesman, inventor, and diplomat but never president.
Hamilton is the other non president on the ten dollar bill. He was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist.|||OK, no coins. There is a two dollar bill printed in the 1890s with Major General Birdseye McPherson on it. Even though he was the highest ranking Soldier killed in the Battle for Atlanta during America's Civil War, what other distinction would require his likeness on a piece of U.S. money.
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|||One Dollar Coin - Sacagawea
$10 Bill - Alexander Hamilton
Silver dollars have been minted and issued at various times since 1794. Dollar coins were discontinued in 1935, then resumed in 1971 with the introduction of the silverless Eisenhower dollar. The silverless Susan B. Anthony coin, honoring the famed women's suffrage advocate, replaced the Eisenhower dollar in 1979. The current dollar coin, which replaced the Susan B. Anthony coin in 2000, depicts Sacagawea, the Native American woman whose presence was essential to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The coin has a copper core clad in an alloy of copper, zinc, manganese, and nickel, which gives the coin a golden color.
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 - July 12, 1804) was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. One of America's first constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the Philadelphia Convention in 1787; he was one of the two chief authors of the anonymous Federalist Papers, the most cited contemporary interpretation of intent for the United States Constitution.
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