Harriet Tubman

I wish the US would remove every historic person from currency and coinage and find something else to display. There are very few historical figures that won't outrage someone in these highly polarized times.

I really like the Canadian beaver nickel, for instance. Uruguay features a capybara. Euros have featured buildings, sculptures, historic places. Japan has mostly flora. None of these would obviously work for the US, but they provide a direction.

Sadly, a lot of the new design proposals I've seen (i.e., the bucking horse) don't fill me with confidence that this would end well.

So perhaps keeping it all the same is the safest option?

 

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We have Lady Liberty. Can’t imagine an American who wouldn’t enjoy her on our currency.

 

I like to see Lady Liberty on just about every coin and bill.

 

In many countries such allegoric depictions are considered to be something from the 19th or early 20th centuries maybe. If you have had one for many years, why not continue using it, but re-introducing one ... well, that may be different in the US. Still, even if you do, you would not want the same figure on each and every "metal" and "paper" denomination.

Christian

 

There are many portrayals of Lady Liberty. A different one for each bill and coin would be a blast, IMHO.

 

I have appreciated Norway's and Sweden's practice of putting folks OTHER THAN politicians on their notes: authors, scientists, opera singers, actors, composers. Other than a few select USA politicians (states-men and -women...now isn't that a disappearing species) one could argue (I do) that many of our composers, scientists and artists have contributed more to our culture and society than politicians.

Give many of them their "spot in the sun." Norway and Sweden put new folks on their notes every decade or so. They accept the change, evidently, as I don't hear complaints from my friends and relatives. Norway just changed their notes, again, and this time they depict the ocean and its importance in the life of the nation.

I think the American public can handle change. Heck, there are young people that have NO idea whose likeness is on our bills. If you don't believe me, just ask them. You'll be surprised. I've heard of young clerks who accept one dollar bills with the corner numbers bleached off and replaced with "100." Good ol' George just increased in value by a hundred-fold. If tested with the pen, it will show as a real bill, because it is.

Steve

 

Did ya'll know that the Wal Mart self serve check out machines accept half dollars? Try it next time. That's where I spend my halves from my CRH rejects.

 

I'm proud to say I spend coins daily. I actually SPEND my CRH coin rejects instead of dumping them. I know, I'm about the only one who does.

 

I spend coins frequently, but not daily. I prefer to dump change at self-checkouts, as you say above, so I can spend halves at Walmart or Harris-Teeter. But Food Lion removed their self-checkouts, Aldi and Sprouts never had them, Kroger left our state entirely, at Target I always use my Redcard for the 5% discount...

 

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I like our bills the way they are, thank you very much.

 

I liked them better the way they were.

 

I'd like to see political figures removed from our currency - they are just too divisive.

Think along the lines of a couple of explorers, a buffalo, and Miss Liberty on the reverse.

 

But apparently saying that political figures are divisive is, itself, divisive.

You mean exploiters, one of the bison that have been nearly driven to extinction, and a stereotypical image of a woman with features exaggerating her ethnicity?

 

If political figures upset you, than stay away from coins.

 

Even flying eagle cents? Or three-cent silvers?

 

Give her a coin, she does NOT deserve to be on currency and certainly not a $20 bill.

 

Why don't the use image of her on the OP? That is much more attractive than the one I have seen on the mock-ups of the bill.

 

Really, this is utterly demeaning. Civil rights advocates should recognize she’s being used as a token to usher in identity politics and be utterly outraged at it. Are they that dimwitted they can’t for the life of them grasp that? How many other civil rights activists would qualify in her place, can anyone think of any? I can think of literally dozens without even trying. Give them a bill for their efforts? That’s what they boil down to, make currency out of them? Kick Andrew Jackson off to make a political statement, to boot, and get two for one? What is this, a yard sale? This woman was a champion for civil rights, let’s remember her for that. This is making a spectacle of her, it’s hardly honoring her. Just my opinion...

 

I seem to recall that we have replaced Ben Franklin in the past and there was little outcry. As a collector, I am appalled that new designs are not introduced every 25+ years simply because there are now people on the coins as opposed to representations of liberty. Not a one of these newer designs has ever been cited for it's beauty - only functionality. I would like to see out coinage go back to artistic representation, and away from this senseless homage to leaders past.