The United States uses bills and coins as currency. Bills come in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, each featuring a different U.S. President. Coins come in denominations of the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and half dollar. The dollar sign ($) indicates the currency and cents are noted with the cent sign (₵). Rare coins include the $2 bill and gold dollar coin.

1. The United States Dollar
Money!
By Mindi Greenberg

2. The Dollar
• There are bills and coins
• The coins are called ¨cents¨
• The symbol for the Dollar is $, and we put it in front of
the numbers
• To say $56.34, we say ¨fifty six dollars and thirty four
cents¨
• The symbol for cents is ₵, and we put it after the
number if the amount is less than $1
• The nickname for Dollar is ¨buck¨
– Example: $20 is twenty dollars, or informally, twenty bucks

3. The bills
• Each bill has the picture of a different President
on the front
• They are all green, but they are
each different
• Bills are for $1, $5, $10, $20,
$50, and $100
• There is also a rare bill for $2
• How is that different than
the Euro?

4. The Coins
• There are coins of silver and bronze
• There are coins for 25₵, 10₵, 5₵, and 1₵
• There is also a rare coin for $1. It´s called a silver
dollar, even though it´s gold! Another rare coin is
the half dollar (50₵).
• Each coin has a nickname:
– 25₵ is quarter
– 10₵ is dime
– 5₵ is nickel
– 1₵ is penny

5. $1
• The President on the $1 bill is George
Washington, our first
President.
• It says ¨In God We
Trust¨on the back
• It has the number one
on it many times and
both in letter and
numerial forms

6. $5
• The President on the $5 bill is Abraham
Lincoln. He is the President who helped end
the Civil War.
• It has some of the same
characteristics of the
one dollar bill
• This bill, and others, used
to look more like the one
dollar bill, but was
redesigned in 2004

7. $10
• The President on the $10 bill is Alexander
Hamilton. He is the only President who faces
to the left on the bill.

8. $20
• The President on the $20 bill is Andrew
Jackson, but it used to be Grover Cleveland.
• The White House is
the image on the back
of the bill.
• Twenty dollar bills are
very commonly used.

9. $50
• The President on the $50 bill is Ulysses S. Grant.
Before he was President, he was an important
general in the Civil War.
• He used his middle initial
often when writing his name.
• It is not used often, as the
combination of two twenties
and a ten is more common.

10. $100
• The President on the $100 bill is Benjamin
Franklin. He was never President of the United
States. Instead, he was President of Pennsylvania
– before the USA was born!
• They have the nickname
of “Benjamins”.
• There are images on them
that you can only see in the
light. They are used to know
if the bills are real or fake.

11. The Penny
• It is worth 1₵, and is made mostly of copper.
• They are very common, but some people want
to stop using them because they have little
value. Canada recently stopped with theirs.
• Abraham Lincoln is on the front, and the
Lincoln Memorial is on the back.

12. The Nickel
• It is worth 5₵, and is made mostly of copper,
although it appears silver.
• Thomas Jefferson is on the front, and the
Monticello is on the back.

13. The Dime
• It is worth 10₵, and is made mostly of copper,
although it also looks silver. It is smaller than
the nickel, but has more value.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the front, and a
torch, and oak branch, and an olive branch are
on the back.

14. The Quarter
• It is worth 25₵, and is made mostly of copper,
although it also looks silver.
• George Washington is on the front, and the
back is different. It either has an eagle, or one
of the 50 states. People collect quarters to try
to get all of the states.

15. Half Dollar
• It is worth 50₵, and is made mostly of copper,
although it again appears silver.
• John F. Kennedy is on the front, and the seal
of the Presidents of the USA is on the back.
• This is a very rare coin.

16. Silver Dollar
• It is worth $1, and is made mostly of
copper.
• There are two versions of this coin.
• One appears silver and has Susan B.
Anthony on the front and the symbol
of the Apollo 11 space mission on the
back.
• The other appears gold and has
Sacagawea on the front and Native
American themes on the back.

17. Interesting Facts
• The U.S. Dollar is also used in Ecuador, El
Salvador, and Panama, in Central and South
America.
• Currency is made in Mints, in Philadelphia,
Denver, and San Francisco. Each dollar or coin
is labeled to tell where it was made.
• 1€ = $1.3309
• What are some interesting facts about the
euro?