RE: Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill
January 26, 2021 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2021 at 3:50 pm by Aegon.)
(January 26, 2021 at 3:01 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(January 26, 2021 at 2:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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.Good idea - with one big drawback.
You do it for postage stamps, you could do it for coins and banknotes.
Boru
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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Lmaoooooo. Yeah, they got the guys over at Treasury working double shifts to try and figure that out!