There is a bill to remove either Hamilton or Grant and replace one of them with Reagan's image.  The question is, whom would you remove and why and who would you replace them with?

I voted for Grant, but I also would remove Hamilton and Jackson.

I just don't see what is good enough about them to put them on the money.

And you put Jefferson-is he on any money? ???

If he is, he should be.  I was going to say he woudl be one of the ones I'd put on there who isn't..

Anyway I would replace Hamilton with FDR on the ten dollar bill, and I'd replace Grant with Teddy Roosevelt on the 50 dollar bill. I'd maybe put Martin Luther King jr. on the 20 dollar bill to replace Jackson.

I voted for Grant, but I also would remove Hamilton and Jackson.

I just don't see what is good enough about them to put them on the money.

And you put Jefferson-is he on any money? ???

If he is, he should be.  I was going to say he woudl be one of the ones I'd put on there who isn't..

Anyway I would replace Hamilton with FDR on the ten dollar bill, and I'd replace Grant with Teddy Roosevelt on the 50 dollar bill. I'd maybe put Martin Luther King jr. on the 20 dollar bill to replace Jackson.



All of them deserve it more than Reagan.

Thomas Jefferson is on the $2 bill.  I have about 10 of them in my dresser somewhere.

And you put Jefferson-is he on any money? ???


Two dollar bill.

I don't know much about U.S. currency.  Whose face is on what?

Is Franklin is on the $100 Bill?

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All of them deserve it more than Reagan.


Absolutely!  Reagan continues to be given sainthood because he was able to smile and put up the kindly old man act.  It just goes to show that must people are style over substance.


GWB, theres a thousand dollar bill too, used mainly for banking I believe.  Isn't Woodrow Wilson on it?

GWB, theres a thousand dollar bill too, used mainly for banking I believe.  Isn't Woodrow Wilson on it?


I don't know.  I put an "other" option up for other money, like the $1,000 dollar bill, that no one really ever sees.

I would replace Ulysses S. Grant, one of our worst presidents, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Henry C. Clay ("the Great Pacificator.")

Seriously, how did Grant end up on the 50?

GWB, theres a thousand dollar bill too, used mainly for banking I believe.  Isn't Woodrow Wilson on it?


A thousand dollar bill? I'd hate to lose a bill like that :o

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Probably Grant, I haven't heard too much good about him.

I'd take Hamilton off the 10 and put either Reagan or FDR on it.

What did Reagan do exactly?  OTHER than turning the world's largest creditor nation into one of the world's most in debt nations?

What did Reagan do exactly?  OTHER than turning the world's largest creditor nation into one of the world's most in debt nations?


Ended the cold war  :)

Ended the cold war  :)


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The mujahideen in Afghanistan did more to end the Cold War than Reagan!

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The mujahideen in Afghanistan did more to end the Cold War than Reagan!


..Go on...

Ended the cold war  :)


Funded and supplied weapons to Saddam.

Funded and supplied weapons to Saddam.


To use against Iran.

To use against Iran.


Let me add to that.

Selling weapons to Iran.

Another good thing, since the time of colonialism civilised nations have supplied weapons to both sides to thin out the population. What Reagan did was sensible.

Let me add to that.

Selling weapons to Iran.

Another good thing, since the time of colonialism civilised nations have supplied weapons to both sides to thin out the population. What Reagan did was sensible.


;D Continue..

Let me add to that.

Selling weapons to Iran.

Another good thing, since the time of colonialism civilised nations have supplied weapons to both sides to thin out the population. What Reagan did was sensible.


It backfired in the end. We're still dying over in Iraq, and Iran is making nukes.

I heard that Iran is still actually 10 years away from having nuclear weapons.

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Of course mine schatz.

By selling weapons to both sides, you play them both against the middle. More than a 100,000 died in the war between Iraq and Iran right? That's 100,000 more we don't have to deal with.


It backfired in the end. We're still dying over in Iraq, and Iran is making nukes.


Very true, I see no reason for us being in Iraq right now though.. this isn't something Reagan would have done. The whole international community is rather aggravated with the Iranian situation.. Reagan didn't sell them Nuclear material.


I heard that Iran is still actually 10 years away from having nuclear weapons.


10 years, 10 months, 10 days.. no matter, all too soon.

Well I tend to think 10 years allows for a possible diplomatic solution. I'm with Pat Buchanan on this; Bush should go the "Nixon in China" route with Iran.

Well I tend to think 10 years allows for a possible diplomatic solution. I'm with Pat Buchanan on this; Bush should go the "Nixon in China" route with Iran.


Maybe, maybe not.
I still haven't made up my mind on the subject so I'm not gonna say too much about it  :)

I will say that something needs to be done A.S.A.P

The one thing that I wonder about.. If Israel attacks Iran we HAVE to go with them. Face it, if Israel attacks the rest of the world is going to assume the U.S supported the action, whether we did or didn't.

Well I tend to think 10 years allows for a possible diplomatic solution. I'm with Pat Buchanan on this; Bush should go the "Nixon in China" route with Iran.


I hope so. I think Bush is done starting wars, both of his so far have been failures.

I hope so. I think Bush is done starting wars, both of his so far have been failures.


Actually, on the contrary I think the military has done an outstanding job in Afghanistan.

Actually, on the contrary I think the military has done an outstanding job in Afghanistan.


Just because it hasn't been as violent doesn't mean it's a success, it's more like they forgot about it because of Iraq. The government Bush created has little or no power outside Kabul and the Taliban still exists in certain areas.

Honestly the job of the U.S. military in Afghanistan is to find Osama Bin Laden and target Al Queda forces in the country.  I think Bush and co. could really care less whether or not Afghani women wear burkas. 

Honestly the job of the U.S. military in Afghanistan is to find Osama Bin Laden and target Al Queda forces in the country.  I think Bush and co. could really care less whether or not Afghani women wear burkas. 


And they've done a great job of finding Bin Laden haven't they.

GWB, theres a thousand dollar bill too, used mainly for banking I believe.  Isn't Woodrow Wilson on it?


William McKinley is on the $500 bill and Grover Cleveland is on the $1000 bill.  They have both been removed from general circulation.

...and why are we blaming just Reagan for this whole mess?  Most of the Russians in Afghanistan crap happened during Jimmy Carter's tenure (talk about incompetence) and I think the whole Iran/Iraq thing started around that time as well.  Not to mention that Iraq was an artificial country to begin with so they were all bound to be f**ked anyway.  And it seems that all this could also be attributed to the little thing about putting a bunch of Jews in the middle of Jew-hating Central :P  

You can't just scapegoat Reagan, you have to understand that everything that happened in the past 50 years built up bit by bit into this gigantic Bush-against-the-Middle East fiasco.  It's kind of like how Lincoln's election was the catalyst for the beginning of the Civil War, but the gears were in place for the 20 years before that.  All it took was Jimmy Carter's stupidity and BAM! we get what we have today.

Anyway I would replace Hamilton with FDR on the ten dollar bill, and I'd replace Grant with Teddy Roosevelt on the 50 dollar bill. I'd maybe put Martin Luther King jr. on the 20 dollar bill to replace Jackson.




Good choices. I agree. However, I would also add either John Adams or John Quincy Adams.


Right now, the only two who are on U.S. currency who were not presidents, are Hamilton and Franklin.


FYI, the Lincoln penny will be 100 years old in 2009 and there is talk about about changing it.




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I honestly wouldn't know where to start to determine who most belongs on the money and who doesn't. 

Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury...that clown Reagan did nothing to compare to him, mein kinder.

I voted "Other", but not for any reason that most in here would suspect.

Myself, I think that a person should only have their likeness on one piece of currency.  Put them on a bill, or put them on a coin.  Do not put them on both.

I would laso like to see the faces rotated.  Put them on 10 year cycles, where the old faces are "retired" for a period of 10-30 years.  This will give us the chance to give honor to more people.  And when they are returned, the portrait should be different.  This way the currency is not always the same.

I would also like to put a restriction on who is placed on the currency.  Wait at least 10 years after they die before they are so honored.  I have a problem when people try to rush to give honors to somebody.

In fact, I would like to see a restriction forbidding the naming of any federal building, highway, or Naval Vessel.  I may be a Republican, but I still have problems with the naming of the "Reagan Airport" or the "USS George Bush", especially since the people they were named after were still alive when the names were bestowed!  Wait until after they are dead, then give them honors.

Washington can stay cause he was the first President so he has a claim. Hamilton designed the US monetary system so he should at
least get a nod. If you are going to start somewhere start with the slave holding hypocrite or Jackson with his Trail of Tears debacle.  If Jackson is there there isn't any feasible rationale to take off Grant(God Bless Him).  I would leave Reagan off(or anyone for that matter)
for at least 50 years in order for legacy to be rationally debated.

I say bring Miss Liberty back, as a numismatist  8)

I say bring Miss Liberty back, as a numismatist  8)


Damn straight,  that is a good idea, and an applause for you    :)

Damn straight,  that is a good idea, and an applause for you    :)


Right back at ya :)

I say bring Miss Liberty back, as a numismatist  8)



As one numismatist to another:  ;D ;D ;D And applause.



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As one numismatist to another:  ;D ;D ;D And applause.



Cat


Thanks. :)

Do you ever make up numismatic humor?

Q: How was Morgan Dollar today?
A: Very Fine.

Thanks. :)

Do you ever make up numismatic humor?

Q: How was Morgan Dollar today?
A: Very Fine.



BAD, BAD joke.  ;D



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