I remember thinking that since George Washinton was the first president, that's why he's on the one dollar bill. Lincoln is on the five, then he must have been the fifth president. Hamilton is on the ten, he must have been the tenth, etc.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy
- I bbelived that the process of "making money" was taking a dollar bill and ironig it.Anon
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- i used to believe that everytime we elected a president was because the old one died!!:)— angel
- I used to believe that the loser of the Presidential election became the VICE President. — AirInSea