Show me the money!

[_subgenius]

...the US Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman (who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist) will replace Andrew Jackson (who reputedly owned 300 slaves) on the front of the $20 bill.

Some would call that sweet justice, but the decision to include a woman on our paper currency is long overdue, especially when compared to other countries.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11456180/women-us-money


The "long overdue...when compared" reads like a valid criticism if one assumes it is coming from a position of progress, a position of what it must mean to be modern.
The future surely must embrace a woman on money....what says "mature" more than a female emblazoned on paper currency...all that is sweet and just in this world is epitomized by what a nation chooses to garnish upon it's cold hard cash.
But is it really so modern, is it really so "long overdue" when the "compared" are mostly images of monarchs? Is having the Queen/Princess on her own tender the benchmark for social progressives these days? Is this the measure of modern feminism? (Woohoo, thanks to a male bloodline a woman's image is used for all my shopping needs)
Or is it another example of inept liberal rationalizations dressed for fund raising propaganda dinner?

QE is certainly lending the feminine touch to perpetuating empiricism
" Of the 120 female-fronted bills discussed above, 74 bear her likeness. She appears on bank notes in at least 19 different countries spanning across the globe. "

...

Yes, how excited Harriet must be to once again be paraded about and used as a source of American commerce.

[_Doctor Steuss]

Our paper currency has featured women before, albeit allegorically. The educational note series even had a topless female representation of electricity on the fiver. The $2 had several women on it. The men (i.e. former presidents) were consigned to the reverse.

I wish they'd bring back Chief Onepapa on a bill (but only if they bring back to blue seal too). That will always be one of my favorite designs (next to the ed. note series, of course... and the fun of iddy-biddy fractional paper currency).

Edited to add:
Our treasury could learn a thing or two artistically from German inflationary notes. Those are by far some of my favorites.

[_subgenius]

Our treasury could learn a thing or two artistically...

Pretty much this

[_Doctor Steuss]

Our treasury could learn a thing or two artistically...

Pretty much this

I keep praying to the numismatic gods that the gold anniversary issues of the Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty Quarter, and Walking Liberty Half might get enough nostalgia going to have the mint reissue them for circulation.

Although, it doesn't help the cause that politicians have to vote/approve the designs...

[_Quasimodo]

Our treasury could learn a thing or two artistically from German inflationary notes. Those are by far some of my favorites.

If you had just two of these you would be richer than Trump (sorta):

[_Gunnar]

So, what is your complaint, subby? That a woman is now commemorated on US currency, the choice of woman portrayed, that it wasn't done soon enough, that it wasn't done artistically enough, or some combination of two or more of the above?

[_ludwigm]

Our treasury could learn a thing or two artistically from German inflationary notes. Those are by far some of my favorites.

If you had just two of these you would be richer than Trump (sorta):
[no img] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richar ... st5b-f.jpg[/img]

It is nothing, as it is only 5 billion.
Warning! European billion, which is 1,000,000,000,000 - 10^12. Today it is called trillion in US, same logic that is calling the middle schools as high...

From 1927 to 1946 we had the pengő [ˈpɛŋɡøː].

The Hungarian participle pengő means 'ringing' (which in turn derives from the verb peng, an onomatopoeic word equivalent to English 'ring') and was used from the 15–17th century to refer to silver coins making a ringing sound when struck on a hard surface, thus indicating their precious metal content.

At end of WWII, there was the biggest hyperinflation of the history.
In a half year, appeared the milpengő (one million pengő) then the bilpengő (one billion pengő; long scale, 10^12).
The biggest denomination was one milliard bilpengő, that is, 10^21 pengő. 21 zeroes, call it as You want.
- [#img] http://m.cdn.blog.hu/8d/8danosnyugger/i ... %C5%91.jpg[/img] -

The Hungarian economy could only be stabilized by the introduction of a new currency, and therefore, on 1 August 1946, the forint was reintroduced at a rate of 400 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 = 4×10^29 pengő, dropping 29 zeros from the old currency.

Then the mil- and bil- banknotes were swept.
- [#img] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... n_1946.jpg[/img] -

[_Kevin Graham]

So, what is your complaint, subby? That a woman is now commemorated on US currency

Pretty much this.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

So, what is your complaint, subby? That a woman is now commemorated on US currency

Pretty much this.

Not just that... It'll be a black woman.

- Doc

[_The CCC]

Jackson was opposed to paper money. Who said the US Treasury Department doesn't have a sense of humor?