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The United States five-dollar bill (US$5) is a denomination of United States currency. The current $5 bill features U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and the Great Seal of the United States on the front and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. All $5 bills issued today are Federal Reserve Notes.
“TO ARTISTS, ENGRAVERS AND OTHERS – Designs for National Currency Notes are hereby invited, of the denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000, to be issued under the Act of Congress authorizing a National Currency, approved 25 February 1863”. [18]
1880 Series United States five-dollar bill. 1869 United States five-dollar bill also known as the Woodchopper Note is a legal tender bank note. It was a large-size US bank note measuring 7.125 in (181.0 mm) x 3.125 in (79.4 mm). The note was issued in five series from 1869 to 1907.
The $5 bill as we know it, with Abraham Lincoln on the front, got its start in 1914. But U.S. banknotes worth five dollars had been around long before that, beginning with $5 "demand notes" first...
James Stephen George Boggs (January 16, 1955 – January 22, 2017) was an American artist, best known for his hand-drawn depictions of banknotes.Due to his pre-Bitcoin philosophical questions about the value of fiat currency, [2] his early interest in creating his own currency, [3] and his contributions to an "encrypted online currency" as early as 2000, [4] Boggs was described by Artnet as ...
The engraved image was used on the United States five-dollar bill beginning with the Series of 1928; the bill featured the portrait of Lincoln. [1] He was also responsible for painting the image of US president Ulysses S. Grant. [5] He died in 1902. [2]
[5] [3] [2] The Sioux were enemies of the Pawnee so the depiction of a Sioux chief with his enemies war bonnet became a controversy. [2] Because of the depiction of a Native American on the obverse, collectors refer to the note as the "Indian Chief Note". [6] [7] The BEP printed 566,054,000 of the 1899 five-dollar bill.
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