Move Over, Alexander Hamilton: A Woman Is Going On The $10 Bill

[mvcg66b3r]

A woman will be featured on the new version of the $10 bill, the Treasury Department is set to officially announce Friday.

"America’s currency is a way for our nation to make a statement about who we are and what we stand for. Our paper bills -- and the images of great American leaders and symbols they depict—have long been a way for us to honor our past and express our values,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a statement. “We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I’m proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman."

The new bill will be released in 2020, a century after the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...m_content=FullStory&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

 

[Darth_vader]

Probably be Susan Anthony.

By that point, the $10 will probably have inflated to the point that it'll be equivalent to the $1 today. Thus, consider the $10 to be the new Anthony dollar.

 

[Oscar Madison]

Didn't they already try putting Susie on a silver dollar, and that bombed. Seems like they also tried Sacagawea and despite double affirmative action points (female and American Indian) that one fizzled, too.

Of course, Canada has a woman on some money but not as much of it as before.

Political correctness at work. Face it, no woman has done anything with the historical impact to warrant a place on US currency. But if rewriting history makes members of entitlement groups feel good, don't let facts get in the way.

It should be enough that women already control most of the wealth in this country. Why should pictures matter?

 

[CTListener]

Didn't they already try putting Susie on a silver dollar, and that bombed. Seems like they also tried Sacagawea and despite double affirmative action points (female and American Indian) that one fizzled, too.

Of course, Canada has a woman on some money but not as much of it as before.

Political correctness at work. Face it, no woman has done anything with the historical impact to warrant a place on US currency. But if rewriting history makes members of entitlement groups feel good, don't let facts get in the way.

It should be enough that women already control most of the wealth in this country. Why should pictures matter?

They could have put Elvis Presley on the dollar coin and it STILL would have bombed. Americans don't want more coins -- especially large ones -- in their pockets, Corporate America doesn't want to retool machines to accept a new size/weight coin, and Main Street Business America doesn't want to have to deal with it in its cash register drawers. It has zip to do with "political correctness," "entitlement groups" or any other talk radio buzzwords. Not every issue in this country is a puke-inducing red state/blue state knee-jerk issue.

 

[Oscar Madison]

Which is why Canada is a superior country - or was until the SocCred/Alliance drove progressives out of the Tory party. Until then, parliament did what made sense regardless of entrenched interests, like coin machine companies. That's why Canada ditched the $1 bill.

 

[JeffM]

Which is why Canada is a superior country - or was until the SocCred/Alliance drove progressives out of the Tory party. Until then, parliament did what made sense regardless of entrenched interests, like coin machine companies. That's why Canada ditched the $1 bill.

Maybe they should put that crone Ayn Rand on it to make you happy.

 

[Darth_vader]

"Didn't they already try putting Susie on a silver dollar, and that bombed."

Is that a question or a statement? Yes, the Anthony dollar failled but not because it had a woman's image on it. Are you familiar with the phrase "Carter quarter"?

The Ike dollar failled because it was so large and bulky as to be nearly useless for a coin in general circulation. (Seriously, 20 years ago we used them as slammers for pogs.) The brass dollars haven't necessarily failled (and haven't depicted Sacajawea in several years) but they haven't exactly been a rousing success either.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Editorial cartoon: once you put a woman on it the bill will only be worth $7.70.

 

[CTListener]

Is that a question or a statement? Yes, the Anthony dollar failled but not because it had a woman's image on it. Are you familiar with the phrase "Carter quarter"?

The Ike dollar failled because it was so large and bulky as to be nearly useless for a coin in general circulation. (Seriously, 20 years ago we used them as slammers for pogs.) The brass dollars haven't necessarily failled (and haven't depicted Sacajawea in several years) but they haven't exactly been a rousing success either.

Those "brass" dollars with the presidents on them -- successors to the Sacagawea dollar -- have been minted for collectors only since 2012 (Chester Arthur). None have been released into circulation. Like the previous dollar coins, they failed to gain traction with a populace perfectly satisfied with its $1 bills.

For years, dollar coins were used to play slot machines in casinos, and winnings poured into the tray in the form of dollar coins as well. Now the machines take bills and return cash vouchers. Dollar coins also were returned in change from Postal Service stamp vending machines, which no longer are offered by the USPS. I can't think of any large-scale user of the coins now.