TRIVIAL PURSUITS: Whose Picture Is on the $2 Bill?

The $2 dollar bill is America's rarest small denomination in the U.S. Currency.

On 25 June, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the issue of two-dollar bills of credit for the defense of the America. Only 49,000 bills were issued at that time.

 

The two-dollar bill was first commissioned in March, 1862. The two-dollar denomination was discontinued from 1966 until 1976 when use of the two-dollar bill was resumed as part of the United States bicentennial celebration. The two-dollar bill was last issued in 2003.

 

Do you know whose picture is on the $2 bill?

 

The answer is Thomas Jefferson.
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