![]() ![]() Just as the Second Industrial Revolution was about to get started, he was an ideal “founding figure” to put on federal paper money alongside “founding father” George Washington. His sighting of the Americas mirrored westward expansion there were only 35 states at the time. To Washington decision-makers at that time, Columbus symbolized the New World, not the old. Who better to be represented on currency than an Italian mapmaker and explorer funded by Spain to look for new trade routes to the Orient?
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