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George Washington: Gilbert Stuart painted a number of portraits of George Washington. More than 100 in fact. One of the biggest no-nos in the design community is the horizontal flipping of photos of people. Because your face is not perfectly symmetrical, it is frowned upon as a design technique.


Despite this, our $1 bill contains a reversed picture of George Washington.


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Abraham Lincoln: The easiest of the bunch to declare an obvious match.


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Alexander Hamilton: The first Secretary of the Treasury (appointed by George Washington).

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Andrew Jackson: I bet you didn’t know that Grover Cleveland was on the $20 bill in 1914.

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Ulysses S. Grant:

It is obviously the same picture though, as you can see the hairline is the same.

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Benjamin Franklin: Probably one of the coolest founding father. He wasn’t just a diplomat, but an electrical genius and very wise.

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Bonus: The $2 bill is rarely used, but still printed

The painting on the reverse side is John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence.”