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The BEP is soliciting ideas for the new $10 bill. Want to give yours?
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Here's my idea for the BEP: Change the $20 bill and leave the $10 bill alone.

 

Get rid of the $1 note and Lincoln cent!

Yeah! Yeah! I know! Neither of these have anything to do with the $10 note. Who cares! They don't listen to most people, anyway.

Chris

 

Get Jackson off! He wouldn't pass muster to be on currency these days - he has a history of defying the Supreme Court, ethnic cleansing of American Indian tribes etc.

 

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Actually, they do. I've developed a good relationship with several people at the BEP and ideas I've offered for their intaglio print program have been taken up more than once. But you have to be thoughtful and persuasive in what you present and keep in mind that for this project they are going to get a lot of suggestions.

 

If they do listen, then why is it that the BEP continues to produce the $1 note which costs more to produce and has a very short useful life?

It sounds to me that what you are referring to is design applications, not a complete change to a particular denomination.

Chris

 

Isn't it strange what the schools do not teach. Everything is just like radio & TV, in sound bites. I could go on but the thread would become political.

 

Of course they never really teach the inconvenient parts of history, like how during the American Revolution only about 40% of people in the colonies supported the Revolution, about 20% were Tories and the other 40% didn't give a carp.

And the Hitler Channel does everything in sound bites and constant repeats, Americans are so used to it that they have no attention spans anymore.

 

The American Revolution would be one of the tougher conflicts to teach or to even understand. At that time there was no postal service, limited news sources and nearly no representation. Most folks back then did not even hear about it before it was happening. A lot of the news was mostly gossip. And most people were struggling just to stay alive rather than get into another conflict. Until the advent of printing press, the Pony Express and then later, the telegraph, it was tough to even form an opinion on anything political. But we have the cell phone to blame for kids not even picking up a good book on history anymore. They have their faces buried in them playing games and gossiping on social media. My face, when not buried in my coins, is buried in a good book on history, watching the History Channel or watching a good historical documentary. If we think the current politicos are out of touch, just wait until this current generation comes to power. It's a sad situation and I hope I do not live to see the effects.

 

History Channel is just bundled up and packaged "facts", some of which are specious at best. I tend to read more than watch TV, but when I do watch TV I stick to PBS for well balanced and largely better researched programming.

The American Revolution is quite fascinating - and mercifully we are far enough away from it time wise that there are practically none of the existential passions like the ones still existing the American Civil War, ie displaying the Confederate Battle Flag etc.

 

Maybe because it doesn't cost more to produce any more, and doesn't have such a short life any more.

Due to increases in the cost of coinage metals, the cost differential between the $1 coin and the $1 note is a lot smaller than it used to be. Due to processing changes at the Federal Reserve, the lifespan of $1 notes has nearly quadrupled over the past couple of decades. The combined result is that discontinuing the $1 note in favor of the $1 coin is no longer a money-saving proposition.

See this analysis, and in particular the charts on pages 7, 8, and 14.

Switching to a $1 coin in the '80s or '90s, when metals prices were low and bill lifespans were shorter, would have been a good idea. But that was then....

 

Let's not forget the history of Native American genocide perpetrated by Native Americans. I guess the Native American dollars have to go too.

 

bring back the Artistry, forget the people!

 

Is this Cointalk or did my browser confuse this with the usual Facebook political noise? Sigh.... I've donned my Kevlar suit so fire away.

 

Tommy, I bet you and I, along with The New York Times book critic, were among the few who really read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" cover to cover.

 

Ok, read I Shire's book...How does this apply to the OP about the new $10 bill?

 

No correlation whatsoever unless, of course, we want to nominate Shirer for the $10 bill.

 

I missed where Facebook applies.