I think the worst President this country had in modern times should be printed on the $1,000,000 Monopoly Note.
I always thought people on money was imperialistic, as did our founding fathers who fought to free themselves from such things. I'm all for a return to the allegorical representations of our land rather than the elitist portraits of those who merely screwed up the least. Guy
OK guys...this is starting to get a little too close to the political stuff. Everyone knows that politics are not allowed here. I don't want to close this tread.
Iconic images for our printed bills that would be great: 1.) 2003 Time Magazine Year of the Soldier cover - or some allegorical representation of the US Military. Not conquering or fighting. Like at a prade sceen. 2.) Iwo Jima Memorial 3.) Washington Monument 4.) WWII Memorial/USS Arizona Memorial/changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 5.) History 6.) Mathematics 7.) Literature 8.) Science 9.) Lady Liberty from the Saint-Gaudens double eagle. 10.) Flight 11.) Sailing 12.) Grand Canyon 13.) Sierra Nevadas 14.) Yosemite National Park
I think a person could make the argument that our founding fathers and Lincoln would also fit the description of that allegorical representation.
Someone please enlighten me... As I remember it, the "law" said a person's image couldn't appear on U.S. currency or postage stamps until 15 years after their death. Obviously this law was waived for the Roosevelt 10 cent and Kennedy 50 cent pieces. Have we any legal historians here?
I agree. But would a king not also warrant that same consideration? Thats what they were fighting against....not a king on currency per se, but what that figure, allegorical or not, represented. A person is a person, no matter what status they hold, and thus, by definition, are not allegorical. Guy
The law regarding paper money only says the person has to be dead--no waiting period is specified. There is no law against putting *living* people on coins, let alone recently-dead ones. For stamps, the law does specify a waiting period (is it 15 years? I thought it was five), but also contains an exception for former presidents, who are traditionally honored with a stamp on the first anniversary of death.
Thanks Numbers. I thought I'd read 15 years in Newsweek once. It wouldn't be the first time they were wrong.
There are now laws that prohibit depicting living people as themselves on coins. For example, the code for the territorial quarters specifically prohibited the depiction of a living person. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/usc_sec_31_00005112----000-.html