Anatomy of a Bill: The Currency Paper The Paper ... When held up to transmitted light these varying tones form a clear image—and in the case of the new $100, a second image of Ben Franklin.

If Congress took the step to modernize our one-dollar currency from a note to a coin, the American government - and the taxpayers who support it - would save up to $13.8 billion.

Under its rules, anybody who wanted to could trade in paper money for a fixed amount of gold. In the U.S., $20.67 got you an ounce of gold, year in and year out. That unchanging value was the ...

The value of any bank's paper notes depended on the bank's ability to fulfill its promise to trade the paper for coin. When Jackson was elected in 1828, there were more than 300 U.S. banks, and ...

The fiver was not the first paper money that the Great Emancipator graced. In the 19th century, he also appeared on a 50-cent fractional bill and a $100 gold certificate.

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...