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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clayirving, post: 2504022, member: 18867&quot;]In 1976 use of the two-dollar denomination was resumed as part of the United States bicentennial ($2.00 is equal to two hundred cents) and the two-dollar bill was finally assigned as a Federal Reserve Note, with a new design on the back featuring an engraved reduction of the painting, <a href="http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/trumbull-large.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/trumbull-large.jpg" rel="nofollow">&quot;The Signing of the Declaration of Independence,&quot;</a>by John Trumbull, replacing the previous design of Monticello. The original Trumbull painting portrayed 47 people, 42 of whom were signers of the Declaration (there were 56 total). However, because of limited space on the not 5 of the 47 people in the painting are not included on the engraving (on the far left and far right of the painting) — The farthest four figures on the left (George Wythe, William Whipple, Josiah Bartlett and Thomas Lynch, Jr.), and the farthest two figures on the right (Thomas McKean and Philip Livingston), and seated in the left rear, George Walton, are missing in the engraving. Two other unknown figures are superimposed in the engraving in between Samuel Chase and Lewis Morris and between James Wilson and Francis Hopkinson, bringing the total number of figures on the back of the two-dollar bill to 42. John Dickinson is painted in the portrait, but was not actually present at the signing of the declaration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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