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PRESIDENT TRUMP's signature on $100 note to put him into small circle of sitting presidents.

WASHINGTON : When U.S. President Donald Trump's signature appears on $100 bills in June, it will place him among a small band of sitting leaders, often associated with autocratic rule, whose autographs or images have through history graced their currencies.

It will also end 165 years of the U.S. Treasurer signing banknotes.

Banknotes around the world often show their signature of a central bank, treasury or other official associated with the printing and issuing of money.

Euro notes bear the signature of the European Central Bank president, and every sterling banknote has that of the chief cashier of the Bank of England, originally written by hand. 

Soviet rouble's took the signature of a finance minister or central banker for a couple of decades.

The Treasury Department on Thursday announced the plan to have Trump's signature on bank notes starting this summer as part of the 250th U.S. anniversary celebrations.

Previously, the Treasury had unveiled plans for a commemorative coin featuring Trump's likeness to be issued as part of the Semiquincentennial celebration, but an 1866 law forbids paper currency from carrying images of living current or former presidents.

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