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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman.

 

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is to officially announce Thursday that a redesign of the $10 will feature the first woman on the nation's paper money in more than a century. The plan is to decide which woman sometime this summer.

 

The bill will have new security features to make it harder to counterfeit and will go into circulation in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

 

Lew is asking the public for suggestions on who should be chosen for the bill, as well as what symbols of democracy it should feature. Ideas can be submitted by visiting thenew10.treasury.gov website.

 

Various groups have been campaigning to get a woman honored on the nation's paper currency, which has been an all-male domain for more than a century. The last woman featured on U.S. paper money was Martha Washington, who was on a dollar silver certificate from 1891 to 1896. The only other woman ever featured on U.S. paper money was Pocahontas, from 1865 to 1869. Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea are on dollar coins.

 

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, who is sponsoring legislation to put a woman on the $20 bill, praised Lew for moving forward with a decision to use the $10 bill, which is the next denomination of currency scheduled to be redesigned.

 

"While it may not be the twenty dollar bill, make no mistake, this is a historic announcement," Shaheen said in a statement. "Young girls across this country will soon be able to see an inspiring woman on the ten dollar bill."

 

A grass roots group, Women on 20s, had been pushing to get a woman's portrait on the $20, which currently features Andrew Jackson. They had conducted an online poll that gathered over 600,000 votes. African-American abolitionist Harriett Tubman was the top choice in that poll.

 

Lew said that Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury secretary, would still be honored in some way. He said one possibility being considered would keep Hamilton's portrait on some of the redesigned $10 bills. Lew said no final decision had been made yet.

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The first woman I thought of was Rosa Parks.

 

Skimmed the article at first and didn't notice this bit:

 

 

The bill will have new security features to make it harder to counterfeit and will go into circulation in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be a good choice, because of her connection to the suffrage movement. Or any of the suffragettes, really.

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Wait, so you're removing Hamilton off the $10 bill who SUPPORTED the Bank of the United States, but you're KEEPING Jackson on the $20 bill who OPPOSED the Bank of the United States and led us to an economic disaster when he shut the Banks down?

 

ARE YOU ******* ME? :unimpressed: :unimpressed:

 

Yeahh i'm kind of in the same ballpark. There are many reasons that Andrew Jackson really shouldn't be on any money, not just because he opposed the Bank.

 

But Harriet Tubman would be a great choice.

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I'm confused on why they're keeping jackson and dropping hamilton (makes no sense whatsoever),

 

but looking forward to this change regardless. it's about time... about 200 years late, but at least it's happening

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I'm confused on why they're keeping jackson and dropping hamilton (makes no sense whatsoever),

 

but looking forward to this change regardless. it's about time... about 200 years late, but at least it's happening

 

From the article, it seems as though the only reason they chose the $10 is because it's the next one due for a makeover. 

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Wait, so you're removing Hamilton off the $10 bill who SUPPORTED the Bank of the United States, but you're KEEPING Jackson on the $20 bill who OPPOSED the Bank of the United States and led us to an economic disaster when he shut the Banks down?

 

ARE YOU ******* ME? :unimpressed: :unimpressed:

 

 

I'm confused on why they're keeping jackson and dropping hamilton (makes no sense whatsoever),

 

but looking forward to this change regardless. it's about time... about 200 years late, but at least it's happening

 

The $20 bill got its current look in 2003, so it's probably not going to change for a while. And the makeovers are mostly done to add new security features; old bills without anti-counterfeit features are probably higher priority. (Except for ol' George on the $1 bill - he's not as well-liked by the criminals, apparently.)

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I have no issue with putting a woman on a bill, but the fact that they really don't seem to care which woman it is as long as she's a woman pisses me off. Women are individuals, they're not freely interchangeable  :omgwtf:

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I have no issue with putting a woman on a bill, but the fact that they really don't seem to care which woman it is as long as she's a woman pisses me off. Women are individuals, they're not freely interchangeable  :omgwtf:

i feel like this is a weird thing to be bitter about... they'll obvi find someone important, but their intention was to find an important woman to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage, which can be a gateway for taking both women and men into account for future bills

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The $20 bill got its current look in 2003, so it's probably not going to change for a while. And the makeovers are mostly done to add new security features; old bills without anti-counterfeit features are probably higher priority. (Except for ol' George on the $1 bill - he's not as well-liked by the criminals, apparently.)

ok.

 

i hope they'll change out jackson when they do get around to updating, though. =\

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Wait, so you're removing Hamilton off the $10 bill who SUPPORTED the Bank of the United States, but you're KEEPING Jackson on the $20 bill who OPPOSED the Bank of the United States and led us to an economic disaster when he shut the Banks down?

 

ARE YOU ******* ME? :unimpressed: :unimpressed:

 

not that you are necessarily wrong, but there will be a time where everyone would wish the banks would be shut down again and snipped of any power (although we're kinda there already)

 

 

 

i say America wastes a lot of money on creating money and to make a decision to recreate the 10 dollar bill is sheer idiocy and not conscious of America's state of economics

 

they should get rid of the penny and the nickel before doing anything else because it costs more money to make those than it does for you to spend them and they are basically worthless, anyway

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)

 

"As of 2013, based on the U.S. Mint Annual Report released in 2014, it costs the U.S. Mint 1.83 cents (down from 2.41 cents in 2011) to make one cent because of the cost of materials, production, and distribution.[4] This figure includes the Mint’s fixed components for distribution and fabrication, as well as Mint overhead allocated to the penny. Fixed costs and overhead would have to be absorbed by other circulating coins without the penny.[5] The loss in profitability due to producing the one cent coin in the United States for the year of 2013 was $55,000,000. This was a slight decrease from 2012, the year before, which had a production loss of $58,000,000."

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Wait, so you're removing Hamilton off the $10 bill who SUPPORTED the Bank of the United States, but you're KEEPING Jackson on the $20 bill who OPPOSED the Bank of the United States and led us to an economic disaster when he shut the Banks down?

 

ARE YOU ******* ME? :unimpressed: :unimpressed:

Agreed - Jackson should be the one removed, not Hamilton.

 

Hard to decide on the female replacement, though. Of all the candidates mentioned, I pick Tiffany Hwang. :)

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