7 Facts About The $100 Bill To Make You Sound Smarter At Parties
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.” That’s weird.
2. Benjamin Franklin and the $10 bill’s Alexander Hamilton are the only people on U.S. bills who weren’t Presidents. So if Jay Leno ever approaches you on the street… now you know.
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!” Which is a real many quote to have attached to your name. You probably thought it was Tom Petty.
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.
As to no. 2, that’s true for currently circulating bills. The $10,000 bill had Salmon P. Chase, a treasury secretary, on it.
There are better looking portraits of Ben.
The dude was a babe magnet, though.
The small tourist room at the Federal Reserve in Atlanta had a stack of uncut Woodrow Wilson bills. Those are the $100,000 denomination. And no, you are allowed to touch them.
Now I just have to get them to change our $100 bill and I will be smart as!
bitscared do you use U.S. money there
Nope! We even have our own money and it isn’t even paper anymore. Crazy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Australian_dollar
cool you have Queen Elizabeths pic on it,DAYUM you have 2 dollar bills too