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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the banknotes-for-discerning-gentlemen dept.

The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided. The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".

The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury. Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.

Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.

Who should it be?

Additional coverage: NYtimes.com


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:18PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:18PM (#198746) Homepage Journal

    -s.

    Very few people these days even know that the two-dollar bill is in circulation. The banks never have very many but sometimes they do have a few.

    They don't stay in circulation long because some people collect them. I always spend them but only after I point out Uncle Roger Sherman on the back, just before he signed the Declaration of Independence.

    I also regard my use of the two dollar bill as a patriotic thing to do. I expect that a one dollar bill costs quite a lot more than one dollar to create.

    When Canada created the Loonie they simply stopped printing one dollar bills, but I understand that the reason These United States will never stop printing paper dollars is that we don't want anyone to lose their confidence in American money.

    RLY.

    That's just asinine but that's the reason.

    The TriMet MAX light rail ticket machines dispense dollar coins when giving change. I expect most regard them as a PITA however it is the right thing to do.

    Cash drawers could accept dollar coins and two dollar bills if the people who manufacture cash registers would make them. It's not like every country on the planet has the exact same coinage.

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