That "Woodrow" was certainly no "greenback."
QUIZ
Why is the $100,000 bill not a greenback?
Which bill above features a portrait of a non-President?
Who is it, and what is his "claim to fame"?
Which bill currently in use features a portrait of a non-President?
Who is it, and what is the denomination of his bill?
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10 comments:
Hi Vanilla,
Hold on a second. Let me run in and check my wallet to see how many of these bills I have, then I'll come back and answer your quiz.
Never mind.
My wife got there first.
John Cowart
Vanilla, how cool would a guy have seemed if he carried a $10,000 bill in his wallet? I'm impressed when a $100 bill appears. But then I'm easily impressed. My stash usually includes a few ones, maybe a five, and an occasional ten or twenty.
I knew the larger bills were gone, but not the $500 bill. You learn something new every day!
Somewhere around here I have a few old Silver Certificates. Wonder if I could still cash them in for silver. Somehow I doubt it.
Photos are about the only way I would have ever seen those!
Q. Why is the $100,000 bill not a greenback?
A. It was released only as a gold certificate.
Q. Which bill above features a portrait of a non-President?
A. The $10,000 bill.
Q.Who is it, and what is his "claim to fame"?
A. It is Salmon P Chase. He was a US senator from and governor of Ohio. He was Lincoln's treasury secretary. He was also a chief justice of the supreme court.
Q. Which bill currently in use features a portrait of a non-President?
A. The $100 bill.
Q. Who is it, and what is the denomination of his bill?
A. Benjamin Franklin. [Redundant] It is $100.
John, isn't that the way of it? Guy puts back a few thousand in mad money, and wife raids the wallet.
Vee, and to put it in perspective, say that guy was carrying that $10K note in 1960 when it was still in circulation, it would have been equivalent to $76,339 in today's dollars.
Jim, I have a few silver certificates, too. I would not bet the Mickey Mouse that you can trade them in for silver.
Grace, me too. I have, though, seen large quantities of money, not mine. As a messenger, I was sometimes admitted into the bank before hours. A "cube" of ten or twenty dollar bills is a pretty impressive sight! That $100K gold certificate is pretty nifty, too.
Chuck, 100 correct! And yes, there is a redundancy in the final part of the 'test.' I don't need to post the answers now, since you have provided them. (Do you mean the B. Franklin of kite-flying fame?)
Hmmm- i like quizzes
not sure about the 100,000 bill- was it not part of the original 'greenback' series- so they really didn't make it green?
the $10K bill has Salmon P. Chase- Sec Treas under Lincoln
current $100 has Ben Franklin
Shark, nice job on the quiz. The "Woodrow" was a gold certificate, and thus not a "greenback."
That would be the B Franklin referred to. However, if you only know him for that you really should dig deeper into this amazing man. There's a lot more there than we are usually taught.
Chuck, the kite thing was tongue-in-cheek. I have long been intrigued by this B Franklin, and in fact I was 13 when I first read his autobiography.
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