What explorer was depicted on the first U.S. commemorative coin, produced in 1892?
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Chrisopher Columbus, on a 50 cent piece, for the 400th anniversary of his discovering America.
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front - Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nback - torch with an olive branch to the left and an oak branch to the right.\nThe back reads, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (which means, "Out of many, one"), and "ONE DIME."
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George Washington was the first president of the United States.  He was a tobacco farmer and the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.\n\n\nHe also have teeth made of ivory.
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Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary, most famously on an expedition intended to reach the Geographic North Pole in 1909. Due to his being black and his status as Peary's employee, he never reached the same fame as Peary in an America where racist views were still common. Today, the veracity of Peary's North Pole claim is widely disputed.
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GRANT WAS THE 18TH PRESIDENT.  ALEXANDER HAMILTON IS ON THE $10.00, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS ON THE $100.00, AND SALMON P. CHASE WAS ON THE $10,000.00.  NONE WERE PRESIDENTS.
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You can get all the info you want on US banknotes from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving at http://www.bep.treas.gov/ & on coinage from http://www.usmint.gov/ .\n\nBTW the previous posters are correct. Jefferson is on the face of the two dollar bill and on the heads side of the nickle.
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George Washington.  Got to love those wooden teeth.  \n\n\nCome on what kind of question is this.  The only half way decent not old president was JFK
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SILVER CITY!\n\n"Dr. J.S. Palen, who was the veterinarian at Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD) during that time. \n\nOld George remembered that Steamboat had at least two white 'socks' and this photo showed four brown feet. Dr. Palen confirmed this: "I don't know who that is, but it is the model used by True to make the license plate design". Lester Hunt, Wyoming Secretary of State, is credited with the idea to put a bronc and rider on the plate, and Allen True is the artist credited with designing the actual image of the horse and rider that was used. \n\nBut who was it, exactly? Old George says: "When I told him that Robert Hanesworth (25-year committeeman for the CFD) identified the picture as Ed McCarty on Silver City, Dr. Palen's response was equally positive: "If Bob says that's who it is, then that's who it is". The picture is shown in the CFD history book called "The Daddy of Them All". \n\nIn a backhanded way, Lester Hunt's design comment confirms this: "I reversed the design because it looked better facing to the right". No doubt it does look better facing to the right, but Mr. Hunt's real reason for the reversal was that legally, it is a picture of nobody, and neither he nor the State of Wyoming could be sued for unauthorized use of a design or failure to pay royalties to a photographer."
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Rutherford B. Hayes\n\n19th President: 1877-1881
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First issued in 1862 with Alexander Hamilton on front; in 1869, reissued with Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Thomas Jefferson on front and his home, Monticello, on reverse \n\nagain in\n1929\n\nNew issue introduced in 1976, in honor of US bicentennial\n\nLast issued in 2003
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Yes, it was Thomas Jefferson.\n\n\nhttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffworld.html
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Martin Van Buren\nhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffpres8.htm
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African-American Matthew A. Henson accompanied polar explorer Robert E. Peary on a U.S. expedition to the North Pole on April 6, 1909. In 2000,\n\nsource: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_henson.html\n\nFollow the footsteps of the great explorers, Robert E. Peary\nsource: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northpole2001/explorers.shtml
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The likeness of President Lincoln on the one-cent coin is an adaptation of a plaque by Victor David Brenner, an outstanding portraitist and sculptor. President Theodore Roosevelt, impressed with Brenner’s plaque, recommended to the Secretary of the Treasury that Brenner’s design be used on a coin to be issued in 1909, the Lincoln Centennial Year. The direction Lincoln faces on the cent was not mandated—it was simply Brenner’s design choice.\n\nIn 2005, the portrait of Thomas Jefferson also faces right. This was also a decision made by the artist, Joe Fitzgerald of the Artistic Infusion Program as part of the Westward Journey Nickel Series™.
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Martin Van Buren, born December 1782,  was the first US President born after the Declaration of Independence.
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1861-O HALF DOLLAR \nPCGS No: 6303\n\nMintage:\nCirculation strikes: 2,532,633\nProofs: estimated 5\n\nDesigner: Obverse by Thomas Sully, modified by Christian Gobrecht and Robert Ball Hughes, executed by James Barton Longacre; Reverse by Christian Gobrecht\n\nDiameter: ±30 millimeters\n\nMetal content:\nSilver - 90%\nCopper - 10%\n\nWeight: ±192 grains (±12.4 grams)\n\nEdge: Reeded\n\nMintmark: "O" (for New Orleans, Louisiana) below the eagle on the reverse\n\nNotes:\nThe mintage for this year includes 330,000 examples struck by the Union and 2,202,633 examples struck by the Confederacy (after they seized the New Orleans Mint on February 28, 1861).  \n\nSome 1861-O Half Dollars feature exceptional strikes and heavy, Prooflike surfaces, such that several of these pieces have been called Proofs in the past.  No official documentation exists to support this possibility, but that is the case with many of the so-called "Branch Mint Proofs" (Proof coins struck at mints other than Philadelphia).  That the Confederacy was interested in (and capable of) striking Proofs is supported by the existence of the 1861 Confederate Half Dollars (four Proofs struck at the New Orleans Mint sometime in April 1861).
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The Abraham Lincoln penny was minted in 1908 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Lincoln's birth. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt chose portraitist and sculptor Victor David Brenner to design the penny, probably because he admired Brenner's previous works of art. Those works included a bronze relief plaque bearing a portrait of Lincoln. Brenner adapted this design for the "heads," or obverse side of the penny. He based the plaque on a photograph of Lincoln taken on February 9, 1864 by Anthony Berger. Lincoln faced right in the photo, so he faces right on the plaque and faces right on the penny.