Reagan supporters want to see their hero on U.S. money

AP ^ | 6.8.04

[ambrose]

My personal opinion: trying to dump FDR for Reagan is foolish and would be overly divisive. I would alternatively suggest putting Reagan on a two dollar bill, which would then be issued into wide circulation. Given inflation, a $2 bill also makes good sense.

[joesnuffy]

Or a half dollar a 90% silver one...

[Huck]

$2 is a loser. Get him on the 20. Dump Old Hickory. Know one cares for him anymore anyway. Especially the new french looking Jackson.

[gortklattu]

Put Ronnie on the twenty. the Ronnie Twenty as a good ring to it.

[Publius]

Barry Goldwater believed that there should be no public tribute to a man until he had been dead for 50 years and could be judged dispassionately by history. That meant to Barry: No statues, no dollar bills, no coins.

Had we observed that 50 year waiting period, it's possible but unlikely that FDR would have gotten on a coin in 1995. And I can absolutely guarantee you that Jack Kennedy would not get anything when his turn finally came in 2013.

[ambrose]

I tend to agree with Goldwater on this...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

$20.
Forget the coins, the Duce and other currency people don't use.

[Red Badger]

The ten is ok with me. No one knows who Alexander Hamilton was, anyway. Andy Jackson was a Democrat, they would scream bloody murder. Lincoln was a Republican/Independent (2nd term), Cleveland ($50) was a Democrat, too and so was Jefferson ($2). Ben Franklin ($100) was not affiliated I don't believe. So The TEN IS IN. PARITY FOR REPUBLICANS!

[alloysteel]

Dump Andrew Jackson, and replace him on the $20 bill with Ronald Reagan. Old Hickory has had his run, and there aren't two people in ten who could accurately identify Jackson in his historical context.

[Believe_In_The_Singularity]

Put him on the $100 so I can hear the rappers sing, "It's all about the Reagans".

Ha Ha

BITS

[Red Badger]

OOPS! I meant Grant on the 50 and cleveland on the $1000

[Atlas Sneezed]

Reform the currency at the same time.

Dump the penny (a dime is worth a minute of a minimum-wage laborer's time; smaller coins are a drag on retail transactions.)

Phase out the nickel and quarter.

Coin a new half-dollar, sized between dime and dollar coin, with Jefferson's image (needed, for reasons below.)

Dollar coin would become the third smallest coin denomination (instead of the sixth smallest.) Change to Washington's image from welfare mom.

Add a 5-dollar coin with REAGAN's image.

Drop the $1 and $2 bills.

Keep $5, 10, 20, 100, and add $500 bill comparable to 500 Euro note.

(A less radical version of this plan keeps nickels and quarters.)

The above system is equivalent in value to a pre-inflated ~1960 system of penny, nickel, dime, half dollar coin, half dollar bill, $1 bill, $2 bill, $10 bill, and $50 bill. It wasn't radical then, and shouldn't be now.

[Dog Gone]

Replace Sacajawea.

[El Conservador]

Barry Goldwater believed that there should be no public tribute to a man until he had been dead for 50 years and could be judged dispassionately by history. That meant to Barry: No statues, no dollar bills, no coins.

Had we observed that 50 year waiting period, it's possible but unlikely that FDR would have gotten on a coin in 1995. And I can absolutely guarantee you that Jack Kennedy would not get anything when his turn finally came in 2013.

50 years??? Looks like more less than one. Same for FDR. He got his dime in 1946

[zahal724]

Wasn't Alexander Hamilton one of the writers of the Federalist papers?

[zahal724]

Wasn't Alexander Hamilton one of the writers of the Federalist papers?

[Red Badger]

Whatever happened to those coins? I thought they were to replace the 1 dollar bill over time..............

[Red Badger]

yes, I believe he was........

[El Conservador]

Change to Washington's image from welfare mom.

Nice way to refer to Sacajawea. How respectful (/sarcasm).

[HEY4QDEMS]

I know that he was the first Sec. of the Treasury and was one of the founding fathers.

Whether or not he contributed to the federalist papers, I don't know but it shouldn't be to hard to find out.