Types of Money
Coins
All American coins are small circles made out of a type
of metal. They all have a picture of
someone engraved on the front. Most of
the people engraved on the front are presidents.
Penny: Copper colored with a small picture
of Abraham Lincoln engraved in the front.
It’s worth $0.01.
Nickel: It is a silver
color with a small picture of Thomas Jefferson on the front. It’s worth $0.05.
Dime: It’s the smallest of American coins and is silver also. It has a picture of John Adams engraved on
the front. It’s worth $0.10.
Quarter:
It’s also a silver color with a picture of George Washington engraved on
the front. It’s worth $0.25.
Half-Dollar Coin:
It’s silver with a picture of a John F. Kennedy engraved on the front of
it. It’s also the largest American
coin. It’s worth $0.50.
One-Dollar Coin: It’s
also silver and has a picture of a Susan B. Anthony. It’s worth $1.00.
Dollar
Bill
All
American dollar bills are average size rectangular pieces of paper. Most are worth more than coins. They also have pictures of people on the
front of them; most of the people are presidents. All of the dollar bills are the same color.
One-Dollar
Bill: Worth one hundred pennies, it has a picture
of George Washington on the front. It
is worth the least of all dollar bills.
They have little strands of red, white, and blue
mixed in. It’s worth $1.00.
Two-Dollar
Bill: The two-dollar bill is the most rare of all
American bills. A picture of John Adams
is on the two-dollar bill. It’s worth $2.00.
Five-Dollar
Bill: On this bill is a picture of president
Abraham Lincoln. It’s worth $5.00.
Ten-Dollar
Bill: A picture of Alexander Hamilton is on the
ten-dollar bill.
Twenty-Dollar
Bill: A picture of Andrew Jackson is on the
twenty-dollar bill.
Fifty-Dollar
Bill: A picture of Alexander Grant is on the
fifty- dollar bill.
One
Hundred-Dollar Bill: A picture of Ben Franklin is
on the hundred-dollar bill.
Five
Hundred-Dollar Bill: A picture of William
McKinley is on the five hundred-dollar bills.
One
Thousand-Dollar Bill: A picture of Grover Cleveland
is on the thousand-dollar bill.
Five
Thousand-Dollar Bill: A picture of James Madison is
on this bill.
Ten
Thousand: The president on the front of this bill
Samuel Chase.
One
Hundred Thousand-Dollar Bill: A picture of Woodrow Wilson is on this bill.
