Comments on: Buildings On United States Money Bills

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:52 +0000

Now this states that the $5000 dollar bill has George washington resigning to Congress. I’ve seen another with the 5000 and a design behind it. And for the Embarkation of the Pilgrims on the 100,000 where I’ve seen it with a design behind it.

By: The Dirkster

The Dirkster — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:52:33 +0000

Thanks! This was simply very cool!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:27:56 +0000

Quite an enjoyable read! Having spent 3 years living in South Carolina, I have to say that not all of the girls are at her level. She’s truly a gem…

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:24:30 +0000

Since we are learning trivia…

The Lincoln Memorial has been engraved with the phrase ‘I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr.’ at the place where he stood me make his speech. I have a picture of it around here somewhere.

By: minimum wage

minimum wage — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:24:07 +0000

The “nude female torso” on the 1916 Standing Liberty quarter – SLQ – (there are also 1916 Barber quarters minted earlier in the year – no such luck) lasted into early 1917. Then a plate of chainmail was added to cover up the torso, and the position of the eagle and the stars on the reverse was also changed. So there is a “Type 1″ 1917 SLQ with the nude torso and a “Type 2″ with the chainmail.

The 1916 SLQ is very rare, as production did not begin until December and only 52,000 were minted. SLQ minted before 1925 had dates which were easily worn off, so some of the 1916 quarters will never be found because their dates are unreadable. (Actually, the dates weren’t work off, but microscopic amounts of metal get moved when the coins are handled, and after sufficient handling, enough metal gets moved on top of the date to make it unreadable. That’s also why many Buffalo nickels have unreadable dates.)

By: minimum wage

minimum wage — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:07:43 +0000

That was a cool item – it was nice to see all the bills in one place as well as a little bit about the buildings and their significance.

While we do have a $2 denomination, it rarely circulates. At work I can handle a few hundred $1 bills in one day, but it’s unusual to handle as many as a half dozen $2 bills in one month.

Actually, the “star notes” (where the serial number ends with a star rather than a letter) are sufficiently common that they current issues don’t command any collector premium. The $1 star notes are pretty common – I’ll usually see a few every day at work – but star notes in higher denoninations are scarcer because far fewer are printed.

By: saladdin

saladdin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:07:37 +0000

The automobile in front of the Treasury Building on the back of the ten-spot is a Hupmobile.

By: saladdin

saladdin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:22:54 +0000

A little off subject but does anyone else register and follow bills on the wheresgeorge.com website?

saladdin

By: Brca1

Brca1 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:50:45 +0000

Easy mistake to make, somehow in the South we are always seen as slack-jawed inbreds, then Miss South Carolina comes along. I finally caught the video man it just makes you want to cringe. As an amateur numismatist the history of money and our currency has always been a fascinating field. For instance, did you know that for a brief time, 1916, the quarter dollar bore a nude female torso? Or that we had a three-cent silver piece that people loathed as much as the dollar coins we have today. Ever see one dollar note with a star after the serial number? Hang on to those they are duplicate bills put into circulation after the original was destroyed, worth way more than a dollar.

By: saladdin

saladdin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:15:55 +0000

plonkee,
2 dollar bills are considered “lucky.” In the past (less with current generation) people would give parents $2 bills when they had children.This may be a southern thing too but this tradition seems to be dying out.

saladdin

By: plonkee

plonkee — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:09:10 +0000

I had no idea you had two dollar bills over there. Amazing. I even recognised the building that Miss South Carolina couldn’t.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:31:29 +0000

Hahaha, whoops, my apologies, my memory is not what it used to be. Either way, I didn’t mean to make it a broad over-reaching commentary about the education in either state… just taking a swipe at the poor girl.

By: Brca1

Brca1 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:10:06 +0000

That’s Miss South Carolina, not North Carolina big difference. Though we (NC) may not have the best secondary education, our public and private universities are quite competitive.