Trivia Question about Paper Money

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve seen US coinage that features a President who was born a King!

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G Ford.

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Me too. My mother-in-law gave it to me for some reason. She died in 1995; I carry it in her honor.

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Ah HAH – I thought $10 bills were a dying breed, and this supports that.

Just curious, not challenging: where did you get those stats? I could Google, of course, but.

Edit–typo

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I got my info from the Fed(?) Currency in Circulation | U.S. Currency Education Program
Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve Balance Sheet: Factors Affecting Reserve Balances - H.4.1 - Release Dates

where I also learned that

…newly designed $10’s are coming out in 2026, so they are not being retired yet (they would probably get rid of all lower denominations first, no?)

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Not retired, just semi-rare. I use less and less cash, like everyone, but for years I’ve noticed that if I break a $20 on something and have > $10 change, I get back $5s instead of a $10 most of the time. This just confirms that that’s probably not my imagination!

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My bank’s ATMs branched out past $20 bills a few years ago, but the other choices are $1 and $10 bills, for no apparent reason.

Not sure what the point is of dispensing $1 bills is; even with the much-reduced number of cash transactions I make these days, $1 bills received in change pile up in my wallet. I’ll keep a few in there, but the rest sit on the dresser at home until I deposit a bunch of them. $5 bills instead of $1 bills would make more sense.

But if they’re gonna do $1 bills, I’d think $5s instead of $10s would make more sense. Five ones in a five; four fives in a twenty. If you’ve got $20 bills, how many tens are you going to use in a transaction? Either zero or one. You just don’t need that many. But you’d want fives so you never need more than four $1 bills at a time.

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“Fame is fleeting.” LOL

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You weren’t using an ATM at a strip club, were you?

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I got the bill numbers from a graphic in the Wall Street Journal article I linked to above, and divided by the the population I got from Google.

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Last year, before Easter, I had a number of $2 bills from my mother’s stash. She used to give them to her grandsons, my nephews. So when we were stuffing plastice eggs for the egg hunt at church, I put in a bill and a couple Hershey’s kisses. I hope the kids liked them. I kept one bill as a memory of my mom.

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The ATM I use is at a grocery store. It gives out 5s, 20s and 50s.

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There was a question upthread about which Presidents were not on US coins and the answer was only those still living. That’s due to the President dollar coin series issued from 2007 to 2016, plus one for Bush Sr in 2020. It’s against the law to issue coins with the images of living people (although that’s been violated a number of times over the years), hence only the living Presidents do not have a coin and why Bush’s coin wasn’t issued until 2020. Note that the later coins in this series were only issued in small numbers for collectors, since they had too many of the early ones in the vault.

Anyway, I was wondering which Presidents have appeared on US coins other than on this series. So far, I’ve identified 9, but there may be some on commemoratives I couldn’t find. Some, by the way, are on multiple coins. So there’s another trivia question: Who are the 9? And are there any more?

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Despite the later coins only being issued for collectors in small numbers, I have been able to obtain all of the presidential dollars from circulation.

I will begin work on your question about coins other than this series later today but right now I am working on my income tax returns. I thought I had the federal and two state returns conquered but then I realized I forgot to include the $15.00 my wife got as jury duty pay last year and now I basically have to start all over. At least Schedule C and Schedule E are still OK.

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When the dollar coins first came out my boss at the time got a bunch of Jeffersons (“the last good president”) and would give them out as rewards. All in good fun.

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Nope, I wouldn’t even know where to find a strip club anymore. This was at the bank branch in my local shopping center.

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Now that makes sense to me. Twenties were in common use when I was growing up 50-60 years ago, so we’ve long seemed overdue for the inclusion of a higher denomination bill than twenties in common use.

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For most of my experience, it’s been only 20s. I really like the arrangement. You can choose the exact amounts of each that you want

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I came up with 13 so far. In order of their first appearance:

  1. George Washington – Lafayette commemorative dollar (1900), Sesquicentennial of America commemorative half dollar (1926),quarter (1932 to present), Washington 250th Anniversary commemorative half dollar (1982), Mount Rushmore commemorative half dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative (gold) five dollar (1991), Washington commemorative (gold) five dollar (1999).

  2. Thomas Jefferson - Louisiana Purchase commemorative (gold) dollar (1903), five cents (1938 to present), Mount Rushmore commemorative half dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative (gold) five dollar (1991), Jefferson 250th Anniversary commemorative dollar (1993 (not released until 1994))

  3. William McKinley - Louisiana Purchase commemorative (gold) dollar (1903), McKinley Memorial commemorative (gold) dollar (1916 to 1917)

  4. Abraham Lincoln - one cent (1909 to present, Illinois commemorative half dollar (1918), Lincoln commemorative dollar (2009).Mount Rushmore commemorative half dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative (gold) five dollar (1991), Lincoln commemorative dollar (2009).

  5. Ulysses Grant - Grant Memorial commemorative half dollar (1922), Grant Memorial commemorative (gold) dollar (1922).

  6. John Quincy Adams - Monroe Doctrine commemorative half dollar (1923).

  7. James Monroe - Monroe Doctrine commemorative half dollar (1923).

  8. Calvin Coolidge - Sesquicentennial of America commemorative half dollar (1926).

  9. Franklin Roosevelt – dime (1946 to present), Franklin Roosevelt commemorative (gold) five dollar (1997), March of Dimes commemorative dollar (2015).

  10. John Kennedy – half dollar (1964 to present).

  11. Dwight Eisenhower - dollar (1971 -1978), Eisenhower commemorative dollar (1990), 5-star generals commemorative dollar (2013).

  12. Theodore Roosevelt - Mount Rushmore commemorative half dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative dollar (1991), Mount Rushmore commemorative (gold) five dollar (1991).

  13. James Madison – Bill or Rights commemorative half dollar (1993)

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Yes, I thought there’d be more on commemoratives. While not adding any more Presidents, you can add Jefferson, Lincoln, and T Roosevelt on the South Dakota quarter (Mount Rushmore). And James Monroe on the New Jersey quarter (he’s the guy standing behind Washington holding the flag). Washington is in those images, but he’s also on the obverse, so I don’t think we should count him twice.