Who *should* be on our money anyway?

I'm glad that all the talk of Reagan appearing on every denomination of our currency has died down.

Who gets to choose who's on our money anyway? I'm sure everyone has their detractors, but if you could revamp the money, would you change any denominations, and if so, who would be the new faces?

And it should be in a lock box! But we got cheated and cheated again and cheated again! Maybe Bev Harris will be on it some day! I hope so!

I would keep the $1, $5, and $100 bills the same. I would put Martin Luther King on the $10, and Thomas Jefferson on the $20.

I would keep all the coins the same.

He's our most important founding father IMHOP, and it's a shame he's relegated to the rare $2. Of course, you could make the argument that the rarity makes it special, but I'd much prefer to see the Democrat Jefferson on the $50 instead of the corruption-plagued Republican Grant.

I wouldn't change Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, or Franklin.

I believe Jefferson was one of the greatest, if not The greatest presidents!

Dumbya belongs on the wooden nickel!

how about someone like Cesar Chavez on the $2?

Replace Hamilton on the $10 with FDR.

Jefferson on the $20.

And replace Grant with a GOOD Republican and put Teddy on the $50.

He basically outlined the American national economic policy. Of all the founding fathers, he's arguably the most important to put on our currency.

Good one! Put * on the $3.00!

Plenty of room, since Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson are on a coin and a bill each. So that frees up some more, too.

But then I think they should put Presidents on paper money and images of people important to our nation's history on coins. So a Native American on the nickel, put Eleanor Roosevelt on the dime (but only if Franklin goes on the $10), and either Frederick Douglass or MLK on the quarter. Not that it'll happen, of course.

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I just found this on ebay ... when I searched $500 bill on google it came up as a sponsored link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40029&item=3939980742&rd=1

Pay $710 for $500?

Nor have any of the other denominations above $100. And when one comes in to a Federal Reserve bank, it is withdrawn from circulation and destroyed. Government's worried about people being able to move large amounts of money in cash relatively compactly, ostensibly because of the drug trade. So no more big bills. Which is why they're collector's items.

Then destroy it and give me my five Benjamins?

But it'd be sent to a Federal Reserve bank for destruction. You can still spend it and everything; it's still a valid debt instrument of the federal government.

...and take Andrew Jackson off. Jackson, besides being a slaveholder, was also the author of The Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of Indian Tribes to modern day Oklahoma from their ancestral homes.
Thus to our side.
It's also time to remove Grant from the fifty dollar bill: though personally honest to a fault, he nevertheless presided over one of the most corrupt administrations of any era until that of Warren Harding a generation later. Put either TR or Ike on the fifty; the former was, for the time, a "progressive" Republican who later broke from his Party when the Taft forces pushed it too far to the right (a development that led to the election of Woodrow Wilson); the latter was the very last of the decent "moderate" Republicans, who even warned us about the development of the "military-industrial complex" in his Farewell Address. It's also important to keep in mind that Teddy Roosevelt was, in many ways, the founder of the modern environmental movement (called "conservation" back then).
Thus to the GOP's side.
For the C-Note? Either Bobby Kennedy or MLK, despite the fact that I liked old Benjamin. The former because he picked up the fallen torch of his slain brother and showed us in it's brief, flickering light the hope of things that very well could of been, had either of them lived; the latter, just because. Either/or - better yet, vary the $100 bill (who ever said it had to be absolutely uniform? It's the denomination noted in the corners that counts at spending time) with both images, RFK & MLK, split 50/50 in the currency.
Just my (no pun intended) $0.02.

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