5 Dollars Thomas Jefferson

Barbados adopted the Barbadian dollar in 1973, pegged at two to one US dollar — a rate that has held without interruption for over five decades, making it one of the most stable fixed-rate currencies in the Caribbean. Jefferson's connection to Barbados is not ceremonial: in 1666, his half-brother Randolph Jefferson visited the island, but it was Thomas himself who made the crossing in 1745 at age seventeen, the only time he ever left continental North America.