Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill

[Rev. Rye]

Maybe a solution is to alter your currency even more often. Instead of keeping the same faces on bills and coins for decades, why not swap them out every few years? A move toward equity might even be to gradually get rid of politicians forever, and start honouring Americans from other fields - scientists, explorers, musicians, authors, etc.

You do it for postage stamps, you could do it for coins and banknotes.

Boru

Good idea - with one big drawback.


The BIG reason to keep bills the same - is to help spot counterfit bills.

When you get a new bill - with a new look - how do you know it came from the Treasury?

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Besides the fact that there’s a shitton of measures the US Treasury takes to make it really fucking hard to pull off counterfeiting, from the unique 75% cotton/25% linen composition of the paper to the shitton of watermarks (from the weird colourings that have appeared on everything $5 and up since 2008 to the ultraviolet fluorescent strips included in everything above $5 since 1990) that they put on these bills?