The Internet is a wonderful research tool but the content is not always accurate or complete. Therefore, one needs to temper the results of anumismatic search by confirming information from other sources or thinking about what holes may exist in what is discovered.

Here's an example. Last week, I posted on my company's Facebook page, and also my personal page, a question of who are the six identified (mymistake, there are actually seven) people other than Christopher Columbus who are depicted on US currency issues that were not born in what is nowpart of the United States of America.

These posts drew more attention and responses than usual. One respondent found a helpful website here and thought that the 53 people listed thereincluded every specific person portrayed on US currency.

Using this website, however, only picked up four of the six people-Albert Gallatin from Geneva Switzerland, Alexander Hamilton from Charlestown,Saint Kitts and Nevis, George Meade from Cadiz Spain, and Robert Morris from Liverpool, England.

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