I like to imagine that there’s an alternate Steampunk-universe where Emperor Tesla is on all official currency.
A woman on currency, that sounds great. I vote for Jessica Rabbit.
She isn’t going to be on the fiver for much longer, and my feelings about Winston Churchill are mixed at best.
That idea is chilling precisely because of how likely it is. Still, plenty of opportunities for creative defacement…
Batten down the hatches, lads - a shitstorm approaches!
Mary Slessor is due to be replaced soon enough.
It could be worse, The RBS hasn’t designed a new banknote in a good long time.
Let’s hope the Chinese take the challenge.
Better a Moon and a Nazi than no Moon and no Nazi. He gets my vote.
Then you’ll love
I had to explain who Andrew Jackson was, and why he is on the $20, to some German friends last year. Super embarrassing.
Not true. I believe there was at least one more as well, but I can absolutely guarantee that Dorothy Elston (who married while in office and so half the bills are signed Dorothy Elston Kabis) was a female U.S. Treasurer in the 1970s.
Isn’t that what he said?
there has not been a man at that post since her tenure.
oh, I did misread! But there have been men at the post since then.
(Probably last post for much of the day, so if you respond to this be patient!)
What woman wants a green wrinkly image of herself circulating all over the world? Think about it.
The Wicked Witch?
The men who suceeded Gray as Treasurer will be listed here
And how could we keep the Masonic conspiracies going if we put women on the currency.
The people on American money are statesmen, there just haven’t been any great American female states people.
Dime? Why not the quarter? That way, those who don’t like him can joke about him being a “two-bit President,” but those that do like him will be satisfied.
And you still get complaints from the French: