On changing the $10 bill instead of the $20

[Jayhawker Soule]

"Currency is redesigned to stay ahead of counterfeiting," the US Treasury says. "The ACD Steering Committee recommended a redesign of the $10 note next. The ACD will make its next recommendation based on current and potential security threats to currency notes."

The ACD bases those recommendations on the "current and potential security threats to currency notes," and it turns out that the $10 bill is at a greater threat of being counterfeit than the $20 bill.

- Why the US Treasury is changing the $10 bill instead of the 20

Frankly, I would have been happier seeing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

 

[dust1n]

Whatever happened to cool statues too. American feels far too statue-less.

 

[Flankerl]

Is it really important who's face is on a banknote?

If it's so horrible everyone can give me the banknotes he/she doesn't want.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Maybe if the new block-chain currency ideas work out we can name one of them after Tubman.

 

[YmirGF]

No doubt they will change the currency portraits to coincide with the phase out of currency. Why not put Ronald MacDonald on your money?

 

[Akivah]

Whose face appears on the bit-coin?

 

[metis]

Can they give me all the old $10 bills so I can dispose of them?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

All joking aside, I am a little dismayed at the ease and sarcasm with which people denigrate the power and value of symbolism -- not that I think that you are doing anything of the kind.

 

[Ouroboros]

Whose face appears on the bit-coin?

Tron?

 

[dust1n]

All joking aside, I am a little dismayed at the ease and sarcasm with which people denigrate the power and value of symbolism -- not that I think that you are doing anything of the kind.

Right. I except if didn't matter whose face was on a bill or a coin, then there wouldn't be one there in the first place.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Frankly, I would have been happier seeing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

I agree.

 

[Brickjectivity]

All joking aside, I am a little dismayed at the ease and sarcasm with which people denigrate the power and value of symbolism -- not that I think that you are doing anything of the kind.

Its true they do. On the other hand our country has a fairly dirty history when it comes to this subject. Our history is a lot to accept, and the people that are venerated are often not what they seem.