Browse By Portrait


Browse US Paper Money by Portrait

Lots of people and vignettes have been depicted on our currency, although the variety came to a halt with the introduction of small-sized currency and the standardization of our currency beginning with the Series 1928. Prior to this, there could be several different types of each denomination in circulation, each with different portraits and vignettes.

So, what's on our money? Well, for Small Sized Currency, the answer is pretty simple:

Denomination

Portrait

Back Design

$1 George Washington The Great Seal
$2 Thomas Jefferson Monticello
Signing of the Declaration
$5 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Memorial
$10 Alexander Hamilton Treasury Building
$20 Andrew Jackson White House
$50 Ulysses S. Grant Capital Building
$100 Benjamin Franklin Indepenence Hall
$500 William McKinley 500
$1000 Grover Cleveland 1000
$5000 James Madison 5000
$10,000 Salmon P. Chase 10,000
$100,000 Woodrow Wilson 100,000

Prior to 1928, the answer's a whole lot more complicated. Basically, lots of people and vignettes appeared on lots of different type of money, and there wasn't any single person or design assigned to any single denomination of note.


A
John Quincy Adams

B
Judah P. Benjamin - Confederate Currency
Thomas H. Benton

C
John C. Calhoun - Confederate Currency
The Capital Building
Salmon P. Chase
Spencer M. Clark
William Clark
Clement Claiborne Clay - Confederate Currency
Henry Clay
Grover Cleveland
DeWitt Clinton
Christopher Columbus
William H. Crawford

D
Jefferson Davis - Confederate Currency
(Commodore) Stephen Decatur
Samuel Dexter

E
Edward Everett

F
(Admiral) David G. Farragut
William P. Fessenden
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Fulton

G
Albert Gallatin
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant

H
Alexander Hamilton
(General) Winfield S. Hancock
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas A. Hendricks
Michael Hillegas
R.M.T. Hunter - Confederate Currency

I
Independence Hall

J
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson

K
John J. Knox

L
Meriwether Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial

M
James Madison
Daniel Manning
(General) Joseph K. Mansfield
William L. Marcy
John Marshall
Hugh McCulloch
William McKinley
(General) James B. McPherson
(General) George G. Meade
C.G. Memminger - Confederate Currency
William M. Meredith
James Monroe
Monticello
Robert Morris
Samuel Morse

P
Lucy Pickens - Confederate Currency

R
George W. Randolph - Confederate Currency
(Sioux Chief) Running Antelope

S
(General) Winfield Scott
William H. Seward
(General) Philip H. Sheridan
John Sherman
(General) William T. Sherman
Edwin M. Stanton
Alexander H. Stephens - Confederate Currency
Charles Sumner

T
(General) George H. Thomas
The Treasury Building

W
Robert J. Walker
George Washington
Martha Washington
Daniel Webster
The White House
Woodrow Wilson
William Windom
Silas Wright



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