Which president is on the US 2 dollar bill?

Answer 1

Answer

A portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States, appears on the front of the US $2 bill. There is a caption right below the picture with his name.

Summary of what is written below: The next two-dollar bill was commissioned in 1862 with a profile portrait of Alexander Hamilton on the front. In 1869 he was swapped for his nemesis Thomas Jefferson. At this point, the two was considered a large note.

The United States Two-Dollar Bill ($2) is a current denomination of U.S. currency. An engraved reproduction of the painting The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull is featured on the reverse. Bills dated 1953 and earlier have a picture of Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello, on the back side.

The design on the obverse (excluding the elements of a Federal Reserve Note) is the oldest design of current U.S. currency, having been adopted in 1929; the reverse is the second oldest design, having been adopted in 1976. It is also the only U.S. Currency note that features two different Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

The only other currently circulating piece of money that features two different Presidents is the Illinois State Quarter (George Washington and Abraham Lincoln).

Of course Lincoln's statue appears inside the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill and on the back of pennies issued from 1959 to 2008 so he is the only president to appear on both sides of a piece of US currency.