Here Are the New Faces on $5, $10 and $20 Bills

[LiberalElite]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that women will be incorporated into new designs for the $5, $10 and $20 bills. Here is a look at the new lineup.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/mlk-eleanor-roosevelt-susan-anthony.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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[Gomez163]

1. I remember when they put Nixon on the stamp.

My direct mail sales went south.

[LiberalElite]

4. People should have stuck it upside down in protest. eom

[alterfurz]

6. "the Nixon stamps wouldn't stick to the envelope...

...because people were spitting on the wrong side."

[C Moon]

12. :D

[LiberalElite]

22. !!! LOL !!! It's a Beaut! nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. Old Joke: But still a good groaner of a political joke!!!

Said by me, whose mother's most hated politician had a name with four words: "That Bastard Richard Nixon".
Followed by "That Bastard Joe McCarthy".




Yeah, we were good Democrats. It was OK to be a Socialist, but being a Communist was unacceptable. That's how liberal we were.

[RoccoR5955]

24. They did put Dubya on a stamp.

Its value was no cents.

[Gomez163]

28. I think you gotta be dead to go on a stamp

[alarimer]

46. Yeah, brain-dead doesn't count. n/t

[kentauros]

36. Archie McPhee produced a rubber stamp for the Nixon stamp.

It would stamp jail bars around the postage stamp. Their tagline was "Put Tricky Dick behind bars!"

[metroins]

2. Why so many?

Are they going to rotate the people?

[Thor_MN]

3. Probably just like the "State" quarters...

Hoping for seigniorage, but people are not going to be sitting on bills...

Has Turtle blown an aneurysm yet about Obama putting "those" people on currency?

[turbinetree]

5. He would have really blown a gasket if Francis Perkins was included...............................

Go Wild

[Sophiegirl]

23. First State Quarter Boo-boo

One afternoon, at a bowling alley, my teenage daughter was looking at the new Deleware quarter and read out loud, "The First Stat." I was, at first, miffed that this bright girl mispronounced the word State. Upon further inspection, the coin was indeed missing the "e". I found two of them in my wallet. Promptly put them in my jewelry box. Months later, I found that the coins had been pilfered for soda machine money by my husband.

[csziggy]

19. Harriet Tubman will be on the front of the $20 with Jackson on the back

Tubman, an African-American and a Union spy during the Civil War, would bump Jackson — a white man known as much for his persecution of Native Americans as for his war heroics and advocacy for the common man — to the back of the $20, in some reduced image along with the White House. Tubman would be the first woman so honored on paper currency since Martha Washington’s portrait briefly graced the $1 silver certificate in the late 19th century.

While Hamilton would remain on the $10, and Abraham Lincoln on the $5, images of women would be added to the back of both — in keeping with Mr. Lew’s intent “to bring to life” the national monuments depicted there.

The picture of the Treasury building on the back of the $10 bill would be replaced with a depiction of a 1913 march in support of women’s right to vote that ended at the building, along with portraits of five suffrage leaders: Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony, who in more recent years was on an unpopular $1 coin until minting ceased.

On the flip side of the $5 bill, the Lincoln Memorial would remain, but as the backdrop for the 1939 performance there of Marian Anderson, the African-American classical singer, after she was barred from singing at the segregated Constitution Hall nearby. Sharing space on the rear would be images of Eleanor Roosevelt, who arranged Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial performance, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who in 1963 delivered his “I have a dream” speech from its steps.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html

[Half-Century Man]

31. I sent a suggestion to the Treasury a over a year ago.

I advocated for Harriet Tubman on the Obverse and on the reverse a scene looking from the Washington side of the Reflecting pool towards the Lincoln Memorial Showing the "I Have a Dream" speech crowd.

Honoring one who chose to endanger herself to free others, and a milestone moment in the continuous struggle.


Jackson needs less press.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. That sounds perfect!

I would vote for that!

[afertal]

7. They're saving the $1000 bill for Hillary!

[appalachiablue]

10. And the 'C' Note. Perfect for the Clintons! BOTH.

[RoccoR5955]

25. Yeah, and the $1,000,000 bill

for Billy Ray Joe Bob Clinton!

[Half-Century Man]

32. She could be on the 1% bill.

Instead of just sponsoring them in Congress....

[Reter]

37. More like the $3 bill

Because that's how phony she is.

[k8conant]

52. or maybe the $225,000 note...

[mnhtnbb]

8. FINALLY!

an acknowledgment that more than white guys contributed to this country.

[Iris]

9. Wow. By the time I scrolled to Marian Anderson, I was choking up

I was not expecting that reaction.

[jalan48]

11. Will these changes help working families?

Seems more like a distraction from the reality of our current economic set-up of the super rich owning 90+ percent of the country's wealth. But if it makes people feel better what the hell....

[csziggy]

18. !

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[C Moon]

13. I can always tell when there's something like this in the news...

because of the sour, angry faces on the Tea Baggers I see.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Lincoln and Marian

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/taggard/anderson.htm

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. My mother told me about Eleanor Roosevelt resigning from the DAR.

Because they wouldn't let Marian Anderson sing at Constitution Hall, so she sang at the Lincoln Memorial instead.

I remember that story. I assume my mother was not a fan of the D.A.R., or as I have heard one person call it, "The Over-The-Hill Mickey Mouse Club".

[roamer65]

15. Australia has portraits front and back.

Noteworthy Australians on front and back of the $10, $20, $50 and $100. Non-political people who actually did good things, unlike politicians.

[Feeling the Bern]

16. No Abigail Adams. No Frederick Douglass. No Native Americans. No Jonas Salk.

It's a start though.

[Igel]

34. Also no Latinos.

The #2 minority in the US, and the ethnic group which, it seems, was here in N. America with colonies before the first anglo colony or first white-imported black slave.

No Asians, either.

[Feeling the Bern]

39. No Cesar Chavez. No Korematsu. But this is a start.

Too bad it's really a biased start.

[allan01]

17. love it , love it :)

going to watch some friends squirm. and some heads go

[ellie]

20. YES!

[clg311]

21. Hillary deserves a 3 dollar bill. NT

[RoccoR5955]

26. There was a three cent bill.

I think that this would be more appropriate for her.

[elmac]

29. I still have some Nixon & Agnew "Twee" dollar notes

some Clinton notes and a few others.

[SoapBox]

40. LOL

[LanternWaste]

47. And Sanders' portrait can be placed on an IOU.

And Sanders' portrait can be placed on an IOU.

(six of one, half a dozen of the other... and each as petulant as the other)

[Silver_Witch]

49. Rude!

[BillZBubb]

51. Pretty weak, Lantern. Better check your wick.

Anyway, all Federal Reserves notes are IOU's. So, you'd better try again.

[elmac]

27. I would love for them to bring back the educational series notes

maybe depicting modern artwork or depression era artwork.

[Metro135]

30. This is a great lineup . . .

But I'm disappointed that there isn't one Native American, male or female

[Jim Lane]

50. Remember that Sacagawea was on the golden dollar coin

I'm not saying that one coin fills the quota but it's better than nothing.

The Treasury isn't minting those coins any more because of a lack of public acceptance, but I personally loved them.

[k8conant]

53. Susan B Anthony was also on a dollar coin

[Jim Lane]

54. I know, but Metro135 was commenting about Native Americans.

I personally didn't like the Susan B. Anthony dollars that were too much like quarters.

[Akicita]

33. All great choices but a lot of Quakers. Shouldn't there be a Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, or

Brittany Spears just to provide some balance?

[Little Tich]

38. Harriet Tubman. n/t

[Bucky]

41. Ew, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, really?

ECS sadly had a history of using racial divides to promote the cause of women's suffrage. Despite her leadership in a good cause, she used her bully pulpit to spread a lot of bad ideas that supported a bad cause.

[Unicorn]

42. Awesome!

And, I bet the Republicans scream.

[whistler162]

45. Why does the portrait of Susan B Anthony

want me to rethink spending that $10?

[Silver_Witch]

48. Women will be on the back..."in some form"

While keep the other guys up front except one Tubman will grace the front of the bill and slave owner Jackson will hold a place of honor on the back. Asshole. Get him off our money! Period!

[riderinthestorm]

55. Much awesomeness... BIG K&R! nt