Ronald Reagan on the $50

Could you tell me the release date on that one:thumb:

 

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Your post makes me think that we could bring back the higher denominations of coins from the past in a base metal.

$2.50 Quarter Eagle
$5.00 Half Eagle
$10.00 Eagle
$20.00 Double Eagle

Mint these in some Bronze Clad combination in large quantities. Then to obtain public acceptance, stop printing paper for a while so they circulate rather than being hoarded and saved.

Perhaps test the theory of acceptance by first stopping the printing of dollars for a while to see if the public (after an acceptable amount of grumbling) will eventually accept circulating dollar coins.

 

To add to my previous suggestion for Indian Chiefs

When the economy of the USA tanks in a permanent way and all foreign interests start to seize property , the only lands they won't be able to legally touch are those of the First Nation.

 

i second that idea. besides, didn't the founding fathers, when they came up with the original idea of the dollar, say that people shouldn't be on the money? didn't they call the idea of putting a person on money "imperialistic" or something like that?

 

This is getting a touch off topic for the discussion of the note redesign proposal regarding Reagan... but as history has shown, those First Nation lands were taken (seized) in the past without regard to the people, laws or manipulation of newly created treaties. Unless the people of First Nations can prevent that in the future from outside interests or come to terms with agreements made with 'foreign interests' (new neighbors), some of whom may not have a similar regard for human rights as the USA currently holds, then your implied sense of security may yet be an illusion. Just a thought on that since you brought it up for us.

 

Yes, they said it, but they also weren't the one's who put their likeness on US coin and currency...

 

As I recall that was George Washington who balked at the idea. They also offered to make him King of the US and he declined.

 

As long as we are wildly off topic what exactly are the First Nations lands?

 

Gipper1985: We don't have to stay off topic , but kangayou might want to address which are specifically First Nation lands for our clarity on the subject. I took it to mean lands now held in possession by the descendants of indigenous peoples who before European contact/conquest of the Americas existed in all of the landmasses of the Americas which are now reduced to a handful of segregated ancestral lands and reservations acquired through treaties and settlement agreements.

 

How did this thread move from bill to coin.....LOL

 

I would also like to say that I quite like the current $50 Grant design and it would be pretty short lived if a Reagan or other note took over anytime soon. The last redesign was a pretty major overhaul and I'd hope that we have them for a while longer. I'm sure realizing any new design will be years off so the discussion while presently a political tool by those proposing the idea has a lot of time before we get to see them in circulation.

 

Well, only we can work to bring it back to notes and the OP. hya:

 

This proposal is a disgrace to our Founding Fathers and other's that were so instrumental in preserving , expanding and protecting this Nation , in OUR INFANCY . SHAME SHAME SHAME ! There is no need to lay a fix to something that is not broken. After John F. Kennedy, there isn't a single President that I would say deserves a place on our Circulating Currency.

 

My list of what should be where, the cent should have a black miss liberty, the nickel should be a simple representation of the denomination with a good eagle on the back, the dime should be miss liberty flying, the quarter should be a representation of commerce, the half dollar should be a representation of modesty, the dollar is fine with sacagewea, their should be a two dollar coin, make it with a representation of the goddess of war, change the 5 dollar to a vighnette of industry, make the ten to represent the american buffalo, make the twenty to show an american turkey, make the fifty to show the raccoon, the hundred should be a representation of the ideal of necessity, there should be a five hundred dollar bill, with an idealization of labor, and a thousand dollar bill with an idealization of finance. The only representations of real (not ideal) things would be flora and fauna native to our nation.

 

My apologies to this thread for straying so far off topic.

 

Now back to the topic, In rethinking i would say Reagan would be a good
Candidate for the $100, Opinions??

 

Let the poor felllow rest in peace.

 

Doesn't matter much which denomination you pick, I think the same issues currently apply and would be debated about this personage.

 

At least we live in a country in which we can debate!

 

If Obama's policies cause hyper-inflation, this could become common currency.