United States five-dollar bill Have a Dream speech and the 1939 concert by opera singer Marian Anderson. "( 7.4218 × 3.125 in ≅ 189 × 79 mm)" "(6.14 × 2.61 in ≅ 156 × 66 mm)" United States five-dollar bill The United States five-dollar bill ($5) is a denomination of United States currency. The current $5 bill features the 16th U.S. President (1861-65), Abraham Lincoln's portrait on the front and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. All $5 bills issued today are Federal Reserve Notes. The $5 bill is sometimes nicknamed a "fin". The term has German/Yiddish roots and is remotely related to the
US Regular Issues of 1922–31 US Regular Issues of 1922–31 The Regular Issues of 1922–31 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination. The series not only restored the historical tradition of honoring multiple presidents on U. S. Postage but extended it. Offering the customary presidential portraits of the martyred Lincoln and Garfield, the war hero Grant, and the