Ronald Reagan on the $50

Discussion in 'Paper Money' started by krispy, Mar 4, 2010.

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Select your choice of FUTURE designs of the $50 note and all else that applies...

Poll closed Jun 6, 2010.
  1. Keep President Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President, on the $50.

    25 vote(s)
    34.2%
  2. Remove President Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President, from the $50.

    5 vote(s)
    6.8%
  3. President Ronald Wilson Reagan should be honored on the $50 or any future coin or note.

    21 vote(s)
    28.8%
  4. President Ronald Wilson Reagan should not be honored on the $50 or any future coin or note.

    14 vote(s)
    19.2%
  5. US coins/notes should feature politicians, statesmen/women or persons of elected office.

    8 vote(s)
    11.0%
  6. US coins/notes should not feature politicians, statesmen/women or persons of elected office.

    13 vote(s)
    17.8%
  7. US coins/notes should feature prominent citizens who contributed to society but are not politicians.

    11 vote(s)
    15.1%
  8. US coins/notes shouldnt feature prominent citizens who contributed to society but arent politicians

    6 vote(s)
    8.2%
  9. US coins/notes should feature allegorical figures of liberty, freedom or national symbols.

    44 vote(s)
    60.3%
  10. US coins/notes should not feature allegorical figures of liberty, freedom or national symbols.

    2 vote(s)
    2.7%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. 10gary22

    10gary22 Junior Member

    I think the worst President this country had in modern times should be printed on the $1,000,000 Monopoly Note.
     
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  3. Augustine1992

    Augustine1992 Member

    ya, thats basically what I meant. Todays designs suck, well most of em.

    Obama? lol
     
  4. bradarv90

    bradarv90 Member

    You mean fdr right?
     
  5. Collector1966

    Collector1966 Senior Member

    Put him on the $3 bill.
     
  6. Dr Kegg

    Dr Kegg Star Note Fanatic

    My vote is for Coolidge.
     
  7. coleguy

    coleguy Coin Collector

    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
     
  8. CamaroDMD

    CamaroDMD [Insert Clever Title] Supporter

    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.
     
  9. Dr Kegg

    Dr Kegg Star Note Fanatic

    I agree coleguy and you couldn't have said it better.
     
  10. Vroomer2

    Vroomer2 Active Member

    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
     
  11. d.t.menace

    d.t.menace Member

    I think a person could make the argument that our founding fathers and Lincoln would also fit the description of that allegorical representation.
     
  12. domdino

    domdino Junior Member

    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?
     
  13. coleguy

    coleguy Coin Collector

    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
     
  14. Numbers

    Numbers Senior Member

    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.
     
  15. domdino

    domdino Junior Member

    Thanks Numbers. I thought I'd read 15 years in Newsweek once. It wouldn't be the first time they were wrong.
     
  16. Collector1966

    Collector1966 Senior Member

    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
     
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