Just hate to tell you that not that much
thought goes into it. How that design
comes to be is almost never written down
or saved in any way.
Got Alexander Hamilton...
and they call this a rainbow series and
it's because you notice a different tint
of color. Those early twos were printed by a New York bank company and they used what dyes
they had in their library, so that could
have been just the president of the
American bank note company or the engraver
who was there that day and they slapped
together what would run fast and cheap.
Jefferson's legacy is I mean that's the
author of the Declaration of
Independence,
Jefferson's legacy so far transcends a
$2.00 bill so it's somewhat insulting
and kind of ironic and in a way
Jefferson was a bit quirky the way the
$2 bill is kind of quirky... Jefferson was
a man who was full of eccentricities and had
very particular tastes.
He lived in Monticello in the lap of
luxury, he has the largest wine collection
in the colonies, the scientist, the
experimenter, the Renaissance man. He's
very sophisticated and of course the
Monticello folks their beloved Jefferson
who happens to be on it they probably
would argue that he should be on the 100.
So what's interesting is that the
biggest political rivalry in American
history was between Hamilton and
Jefferson...
What you saw was basically Hamilton and
Jefferson proposed the ideas for what
our new government should look like.
What makes it even more interesting about the
$2 bill is much of their feud was over money.
Hamilton favoring it, Jefferson opposing it.
So these guys had this great feud and
Hamilton was the first guy on a $2.00
bill because he was the first Treasury
secretary and then he gets replaced by
Jefferson. So these guys couldn't stand
each other and the two of them would end
up being competitors on the strangest
piece of currency in the country.
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