Excuses for not putting a woman on a U.S. banknote

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There are lodges where women participate as equals.

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Unfortunately in the later years of World Emperor Teslaā€™s reign hyperinflation became a serious problemā€¦

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Well whaddaya know. The U.S. did have a woman on its printed currency at one point. She may only have been deemed deemed noteworthy (har!) enough because she was married to the first President, but still. If we could find a woman worthy of being on paper money 130 years ago then surely we can find one now.

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Apparently, the Queen of England as anyone with currency from the British Commonwealth can attest to.

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That second statement is a matter of opinion that I donā€™t agree with, but the first is simply inaccurate. If you look through the list of people who have been featured on U.S. banknotes over the generations youā€™ll see inventors, explorers, and military heroes among others. Thereā€™s even a bison. A goddamn bison.

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Iā€™m hoping they keep the Presidential Dollar Coins going long enough for me to get my Richard Nixon dollars. They were scheduled for 2016 or so, back when that was a long time in the future. Itā€™s possible that the current Republican Congress will decide they donā€™t want such a liberal RINO on the coins and kill it, but we can hope.

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The design for the one dollar bill belongs to a series of 1928 bank notes that features:

  • $1 George Washington
  • $2 Thomas Jefferson
  • $5 Abraham Lincoln
  • $10 Alexander Hamilton
  • $20 Andrew Jackson
  • $50 Ulysses S Grant
  • $100 Benjamin Franklin
  • $500 William McKinley
  • $1000 Grover Cleveland
  • $5000 James Madison
  • $10000 Salmon P. Chase
  • $100000 Woodrow Wilson (Gold Certificate, 1934)

Theyā€™re all rather stodgy.

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Iā€™ve never heard it pronouncedā€“Saul-mon or Saaah-mon?

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I have no idea. Perhaps with a New Hampshire accent?

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Although Australia may be lagging badly when it comes to societal attitudes towards women, Iā€™m quite pleased that our currency is split almost 50/50 between portrayals of men and women.

Now, if we could get some cultural diversity happening on them alongside all those dead white folksā€¦

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If you remember the wailing about the SBA dollar (only to get worse with the Sacajawea), then no. If the Fed had just charged banks a cent more for bills than coins (to partly reflect the extra cost of maintaining paper currency), this might not be an issue, but the wingnuts got a twitch about the dollar coin that they failed to achieve with the useless penny, nickel, and quarter.

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Even worse would be Belgians and Leopold. Thankfully they have to use a bridge, instead.

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Wait, what? Could that possibly be true? I thought Iā€™ve seen menā€™s signatures on bills (I was personal friends with Elston Kabis, so itā€™s of interest to me). If this is right.,ā€¦,

MIND BLOWN, as my kids say!!!

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Because replacing FDR on the dime is an actual proposal. Nobody wants to bump Washington off the quarter.

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He had long hair in braidsā€¦does that count? :wink:

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No real woman could possibly measure up to a mythological ideal.

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Jackson was a corrupt genocidal maniac.

They should put Red Cloud on the $20.

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Only if itā€™s a white woman. If we put a black woman on it, itā€™ll only be worth $12.80.

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They might kill it not if they realise they wonā€™t get their Reagan dollars.

I regret not trying to get a Woodrow Wilson dollar. True, the guy was a racist arsehole but his name is on a few places in Carlisle and he was one of the first US presidents I knew existed as a result (the others were probably Reagan, Nixon, Lincoln and Washington, who had his own connections with Cumbria).

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