{"id":1488,"date":"2018-01-17T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:12:14","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-mr-benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Mr. Benjamin Franklin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that it is Benjamin Franklin who is presently featured on the 100 American dollar bill? One of the nation\u2019s founding fathers, he was famously called by many as the \u2018first Citizen of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century\u2019. A writer, inventor, politician, and diplomat, as a boy, Franklin was an apprentice to his brother, which exposed him to new books and ideas. His first financial and literary success was \u2018Poor Richard Almanac\u2019 which was filled with illustrations, proverbs, and paradoxes of his own creation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin Banknotes\" width=\"628\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1-3.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1-3-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bust of Benjamin Franklin was inscribed on the front of silver half dollar coins minted by the United States Mint from 1948 to 1963. A one dollar silver coin issued for Franklin\u2019s 300<sup>th<\/sup> birth anniversary represents his experiment with lightning on the obverse and his famous political cartoon on the reverse. The dollar coin features an older portrait of Benjamin Franklin with his signature on the obverse and a copy of a 1776 Continental Dollar on the reverse. First issued in 1874, the fifty dollar bill also has Benjamin Franklin alongside Lady Liberty dressed as Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2-3.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin Coins\" width=\"628\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2-3.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2-3-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a>In the summer of 1776, Benjamin Franklin was a part of the five-member-team \u00a0that would draft the document declaring American independence. He was also elected commissioner to France and set sail to negotiate a treaty for the country\u2019s military and financial support.\u00a0Back in America, he represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and guided the near-deadlocked delegates towards a compromise on the new Declaration of Independence. A prolific inventor, Benjamin Franklin devised the lightning rod and coined new electricity-related terms that are still part of the lexicon, such as battery, charge, conductor and electrify.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-3.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin Stamps\" width=\"628\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-3.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3-3-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster of United States, it seems quite fitting for the first national stamps to depict his image. In the next fifteen years (1847- 1862) typically every stamp would feature him. His likeness has appeared on numerous United States definitive stamps too.\u00a0 Several foreign commemorative stamps have also captured and preserved his endless accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/4-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/4-4.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin Stamps\" width=\"628\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/4-4.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/4-4-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an innovator, Benjamin Franklin developed bifocals that could be used for both distance and reading. He is credited with inventing the first rocking chair, flexible catheter, Franklin stove and American penny. Benjamin Franklin\u2019s inventions took on a musical bent as well when in 1761, he commenced the development of armonica, a musical instrument composed of spinning glass bowls on a shaft. All this came from a man who never finished school but shaped his life through abundant reading and experiences. \u00a0With a strong moral compass and an unflagging commitment to civic duty, Benjamin Franklin truly illuminated the corners of American life that still luster in his achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that it is Benjamin Franklin who is presently featured on the 100 American dollar bill? One of the nation\u2019s founding fathers, he was famously called by many as the \u2018first Citizen of the 18th century\u2019. A writer, inventor, politician, and diplomat, as a boy, Franklin was an apprentice to his brother, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintageworld.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-mr-benjamin-franklin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday Mr. Benjamin Franklin!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[736,738,739,737],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Mr. Benjamin Franklin | Mintage World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Benjamin Franklin was famously called by many the \u2018first Citizen of the 18th century\u2019. 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