What will come in 2010?

Yeah, but what about the sales tax?

Yep, I remember that... it was about 10 years ago or so that NYSE switched from fractional prices to decimal prices. Shortly after that, all the other major stocks exchanges in the US and around the world followed suit. Made accounting a lot easier, especially since almost all currencies in the world are decimalized anyway (at least any currency with a subunit; some currencies, like the Japanese Yen, don't have any subunit to them).

 

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That would actually be a good accompaniment to sum up his Civil War days. Or his presidency in general (practically the same thing, I suppose, as he didn't live long after it ended; Lincoln is often called the last casualty of the Civil War.)

 

we are talkig about ordinary money not gold pieces

 

The Yen used to have subunits, but over the years as the value of the yen fell the smaller units were discontinued as they became too small to be useful. (Hmmm mybe we should ask them how they managed to survive their elimination. )

 

We could do a Great Swindle series. That way Harding and Nixon could wind up on a coin. The reverse could feature the corperate logos of Silverado and Countrywide or other bail-out recepiants. The legend can be changed from LIBERTY to SURVITUDE with the motto "Trust No One". The minting should be in high grade plastic and out sourced to China, which is where the money goes anyway. A First Mistress series can also be included with Maryln and Monica. Congress may not be in agreement with all of this but at leaset they are all involved. :smile

All seriousness aside, let's take the politicians off the coinage and come up with some modern renditions of Liberty. I've been quite inpressed with what has been done recently with the Bald Eagle.