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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 08:42 PM Jun 2015

Why there's going to be a woman on the $10 instead of the $20

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/woman-on-the-10.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true

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The U.S. Treasury announced on Thursday that there will be a woman on paper currency in 2020 — the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. Just not the denomination advocates expected.

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Although organizers have been pressuring the Treasury Department to depose Andrew Jackson and install a new woman leader on the $20, the federal government has decided to put a woman on the $10 — which was already in the process of being the first redesigned note in the new series of dollar bills. If any other denomination were chosen, America would probably have had to wait a long time before getting to see a woman among all those dead presidents and founding fathers that have remained unchanged since 1929; the first note in the last series of new dollar bills was released in 2003, the last one wasn't ready until a decade later.
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Why there's going to be a woman on the $10 instead of the $20 (Original Post) LiberalElite Jun 2015 OP
Well, they couldn't depose Washington or Lincoln Warpy Jun 2015 #1
Yeah. I want Jackson gone too. nt LiberalElite Jun 2015 #2
You mean the 7.80 dollar bill? johnp3907 Jun 2015 #3
By 2020 it'll be even less nt LiberalElite Jun 2015 #4

Warpy

(111,332 posts)
1. Well, they couldn't depose Washington or Lincoln
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 08:44 PM
Jun 2015

so $10 was the SMALLEST denomination they could possibly do.

Hamilton, although I disagree profoundly with much of his writing, did have a huge effect on the early financial system of this country, a positive effect overall. He doesn't deserve this.

Jackson should have been gone decades ago.

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