The Face of Money

Everyone works for it. Everyone wants more of it. Some consider it the root of all evil. MONEY!

 Let’s face it, we all would like to make more money, but they always say money can’t buy happiness. Some respond to that by saying, “but it can buy a big new house, a new car, new clothes and plenty of trips around the world.”

 Most currency from around the world always seems to have faces of people on it. Whether it’s Presidents or leaders or even Queen Elizabeth.

The US 100 dollar bill has the face of Benjamin Franklin (as shown in the image on the right) on the front who was a U.S. statesman, inventor, and diplomat. The 100 dollar bill is one of two U.S. bills that doesn’t feature a U.S. President. The other is the U.S. 10 dollar bill with Alexander Hamilton.

 The US 1 dollar bill has the face of first U.S. President George Washington (as shown in the image on the left). Although more people want more Benjamins, they probably see more of George since the one dollar bill is the most common obviously because of it’s low denomination.

The U.S. 2 dollar bill has the face of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, the U.S. 5 dollar bill has the face of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, the 10 is mentioned above, the U.S. 20 dollar bill has the face of former U.S. President Andrew Jackson, and the U.S. 50 dollar bill has the face of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Then there are all the coins.

Canadian currency features numerous faces as well. Queen Elizabeth is one of those faces (see left image) which is featured on various denominations including the Canadian one dollar coin, often referred to as a “Loonie” for the loon that is featured on the opposite side of the coin (see right image).

It doesn’t matter what country the currency comes from, it seems they all have a face of someone from that country’s history.

Let’s face it, we’d all like to see a little more of these faces.