Increasing money’s face value

Since the 1980s, Seth Dickerman has been photographing the portraits of presidents that appear on our currency – the stoic profiles on bills and coins that are so familiar, but which look strangely new under his camera lens. With magnifications of up to 10,000 percent, Dickerman’s portraits reveal the nicks and scrapes on faces that have weathered years of transactions. John Blackstone reports. Source