Money, Coins & Currency Posters & Prints

The law prohibits portraits of living persons from appearing on Government Securities. Therefore, the portraits on currency notes are of deceased persons whose places in history the American people know well. (US Treasury FAQs)

Washington – $1; Jefferson – $2; Lincoln – $5; Hamilton – $10; Jackson – $20; Grant – $50; Franklin – $100.

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Money Wall Poster

A Colonial Six Dollar Bill of 1776, an American Fifty Dollar Bill of 1779

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Coin Press, 1851

The Mint, from Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, Economics from a French translation by Nicholas Oreme

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At this time when the major complaint is that money is so scarce it must be an act of kindness to instruct the moneyless how they can reinforce their pockets. I will acquaint all with the true secret of money catching, the certain way to fill empty purses and how to keep them full. Two simple rules well observed will do the business. First, let honesty and hard work be thy constant companions; Second spend one cent less every day than thy clearly gains. Then shall thy pockets soon begin to thrive, thy creditors will never insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee; the whole hemisphere will shine brighter and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. Thereby embrace these rules and be happy.

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Iron Tail / Nickel

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Chinese Paper Money

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Aureus (coin) of Tiberius Depicting the Emperor in a Four-Horse Chariot

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Queen Zenobia (fl. 3rd century AD) didn't get into trouble with Rome until she started minting coins and calling herself “Augusta”.

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Commerce Map of the World

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The metric system is a decimalized (10) system of measurement using base units: meter=length, gram=weight, liter=capacity.

The decimal system proposed in England by John Wilkins (1668) is thought to have been introduced to France by people like Benjamin Franklin. Eventually Louis XVI of France asking a group of genius' to develop a 'unified, natural and universal' system of measurement to replace the widely varying systems then in use. The system developed by the group, among them Lavoisier, was adopted by the revolutionary government of France. Thomas Jefferson, the American ambassador to France during the American War of Independence, established the decimal system for the new United States currency system; he was unsuccessfully for the adoption of a decimal system of weights and measures.

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Christ Driving the Money Changers Out of Temple

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Quipu (Spanish spelling), a recording devices used by the Inca, usually consisted of colored spun and plied threads from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with knots that encoded tax, census and events data. The knots seem to represent a base 10 positional system. Some kuipu (kuipu is word for "knot" in Quechua, the native Inca language) may have just a few strands, others have up to 2,000 strands.

North American indigenous peoples' wampum, usually thought of as a medium of exchange, or currency, was also used in a similar way.