2026 Harriet Tubman $20 bill

No we won’t! We got our principles!

 

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It’s a plot. They’re trying to turn us into geraniums.

 

WHAT, EXACTLY, does this design "pander" to?

 

Well.... If they put my face on a twenty I bet a lot of folks would find it ugly and repulsive. I aint a pretty fellow. You have to admit Ms. Tubman's is not the most visually appealing of portraits..... All that aside, I too would rather see a unifying symbol on our circulating cash. And in my unimportant view, Lady Liberty fits that role. Regardless, it is money and I plan to use it.

 

Without breaking the rules the only thing I can say to answer your question it that the design change is political motivated.

 

A mute point for me as I probably won't be around by the time they make up their mind to change the design. Like many others, I like the idea of Liberty on currency.

 

Moot.

 

Horses don't moo.

 

Yeah, but this one's talented.

 

Do mute horses moo? Or is it a moot point?

 

Moot point. I used to moo when I was mute, but I'm finished with that, now. You see, that was just a phase I was going through...

 

Shall we moove on ???

 

Yes, Moooo

 

I've given up on correcting people. If they have said it one way for 50 years they
aren't going to start saying/writing it the correct way.
I read some posts the other day and I just cringe at the mistakes that people
think are the actual sayings/words.
As for Harriet, it doesn't really matter which dead person's image is on the bill. And while she is an important historical figure, that image is not flattering.

 

Any chance of anyone showing the banknote-photo with Ms Tubman ?

 

Have you tried Google ?

 

StevelnTampa. Thanks a lot for those Tubman banknote photos. They aren't all very attractive. However, women of her background weren't very appreciated, and may not have found it easy to raise a smile for the banker's camera. - I hadn't thought of an obvious idea - Google !!!

 

Ugh, these should be on the $2, not the $20, the $20 is too familiar and in wide use, the $2 is rare and already something of an oddball, plus it has the reverse full width vignette which could be put to good use in a commemorative design.

Part of the issue too is the engraving just isn't high quality in most of these examples. Let a good engraver take a crack and then lets talk about the design.

But on the $2, in a commemorative series, which can include other folks over time as well. Every couple years, a new commemorative is released. Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Nathaniel Greene, Frederick Douglass, a new design that runs for two years and then done. PLUS it helps this hobby. Just use high quality engravers with excellent and poignant vignettes and reverses and you'll have a winner. This of the educational series fronts but on the rear, with modern large head takes or even stay small head on the front.

 

No idea why a new topic had to be started for this as we already have this fairly recent one. Proposed $20 Bill Design with Harriet Tubman But heck, the idea is "dead" (or will at least be dormant for another couple of years) anyway. So it seems odd to me to discuss whether people might collect a note that will not be around soon, and of course we do not know what such a Tubman bill would look like. Interesting though that all those "Google suggestions" show a photo built into a $20 bill while all those portraits of statesmen are drawings ...

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