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The Famous 'Faces' Ruling Powerful Currencies

Saturday, 27 July 2013, 01:43 IST
By SiliconIndia
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United States



Currency: Dollar
Currency denomination
: $100



Personality: Benjamin Franklin



Benjamin Franklin too was one of the Founding Fathers of the Unites States. A noted polymath, Franklin’s face often used on the U.S. postage stamps as well as on the nation's first postage stamps in 1847. Besides, Franklin was a prominent author, printer, political theorist, politician, and scientist to mention a few. Some of his remarkable inventions are the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'.



Currency: Dollar
Currency denomination
: $50



Personality: Ulysses S. Grant



A highly successful war general during the second half of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was the 18 President of the United States. Grant as a President took active part in eliminating all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery. He was instrumental in abolishing the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. Grant was the first ever president to introduce Civil Service reform in 1871.



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