President on the dime

[william king]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't it Theodore Roosevelt?
My (1st grade)son came home from school and they made a coin book. The teacher told them that Dwight D. Eisenhower is on the dime and now I can not convince him otherwise.

 

[John - Maryland]

ROOSEVELT DIMES

 

[goldtooth]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

[diggingfix]

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[FrontierWest]

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[Chris/MA]

[quote william king]Correct me if I am wrong but isn't it Theodore Roosevelt?
My (1st grade)son came home from school and they made a coin book. The teacher told them that Dwight D. Eisenhower is on the dime and now I can not convince him otherwise.[/quote]

Nope, it's not Ike, it's FDR.

Coins with presidents on them (circulating ones anyway):
Penny: Abe Lincoln
Nickel: Thomas Jefferson
Dime: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (you were right about the roosevelt, you just had the wrong one)
Quarter: George Washington
Half Dollar: John F Kennedy, preceded by Ben Franklin, but he wasn't a president.
Dollar: Dwight D. Eisenhower, and now George Washington again.

Note that dead presidents on circulating coins is exclusively a 20th century thing. Lincoln was the first one in 1909, which as I recall was the 100th anniversary of his birth. Might have been some on banknotes prior to 1900, not sure about that.

 

[jimb]

Wait until they see the quarters with the picture of the Silver Surfer glued to the back side. As far as I know they released 800 in each state last weekend. I don't know if the mint got it stopped in time.

jimb SE WI

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

when he had all the kids across America collect dimes to find a cure I think for MD? They took the dimes to Washington D.C. and so to commemorate that event they put FDR on the dime.

 

[therick]

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[william king]

Ha Ha Ha very funny! It is a Texas school. DOD schools are pretty rare in the states.

 

[william king]

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