Who or what would you put on US coinage?

I, of course, agree that going back to a personification of Liberty would be nice. But I don't think that bell can be un-rung. I think we're stuck with dead presidents and founding fathers.
However, I would suggest they stop with all the different reverse designs (primarily quarters, but cents and nickels have seen it too). Keep it simple, and each year JUST update the year and mintmark.

 

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Lady liberty on the Obverse and Eagle on the reverse but both modernized.

 

Liberty on obverse of all coins and bills.

Reverse would any one of the following, but the eagle must be on the dollar coin...

Steamboat, trains, birds.

(no $1 bill and no 1 cent coin).

 

Bring back the tube top and cut off jeans. That would raise some eyebrows. LOL.

 

I was just thinking about this last night. Since our dollar is worth about five cents of 1920 money, we should only have one-dollar and twenty-cent pieces now, to correspond to the nickel and penny of that era.

 

Aww jeez it's worse than I thought. A 1913 nickel is equivalent to over $1.50 in curent-day purchasing power.

I wasn't up to date with, uh, recent history.

 

Dang that's sad.

 

I like some of the ideas here, but the first thing I would do is bring back the $1 coin, but not in a pathetic way like they did with the small gold dollars. I would bring back the old morgan and ike dollar size, and actually put a neat design on both sides, like they did with the ike to commemorate moon landing. Heck, why not just bring back the ike dollar

 

Considering this "limited mintage" coin is still for sale SIX YEARS after being minted, I know I'm not the only one who hates it.

It looks like and it actually was designed by committee. The proportions are all off. I think the eagle is sick and needs to see a vet.

Just horrible looking.

 

Because everybody hated them and nobody wanted to carry them around.

For a number of years Mom's parents gave each grandchild some sort of novelty gift stuffed with Ikes as a birthday present. I think their idea was that we'd take them directly to the bank and deposit them into our savings accounts, rather than actually carrying them around as ballast, erm, spending money.

 

Hey! Can you imagine walking around with a pocket full of Large cents back in the day!

 

How about Morgan dollars, man those things are heavy, with only a few your pants would start falling down...LOL

 

I know, right! Hey, I'd rather be weighed down by $5 Gold pieces, for example. That reminds me of a story I once read. A saw mill owner once paid his workers in Gold $5 coins every week. What a paycheck!! Can you imagine carrying that payroll around?

 

You get value you for your money that way...LOL