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United States
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If they were to make a new circulating coin and or new currency who would you like to see on it or them?
Do you think they'll make a Obama note or coin instead of waiting till he passes? He'd be this first none dead president as he was the first Africian American President. Do you think they make Harriet Tugman coin or currency?
Who would you like to see?
Please, this is NOT a political topic and don't start one. Wondering your thoughts and I'm not talking about collectors stuff here. I'm speaking of everyday usage currency and coins. I'm sure if I have misspoke some one will set me straight, be gentle is all I ask lololo Edited by Reno911
03/13/2023 8:25 pm
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Argentina
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That's actually the topic of a heated discussion in my country. Because of the rampant inflation, the government should have printed higher denomination notes long ago. They want to discontinue the series depicting local fauna, and instead return to showing personalities on the bills. A design for a 2000 pesos note was approved soon ago, with two medical doctors on it. A man and a woman, the first is credited with creating our public health system, the latter was a researcher and one of the first female graduated physicians in Argentina.
But now to the question, whom would I like to see on a new coin or note? As a lawyer, I'd like to see a jurist. The creator of an important law, someone who helped advance civil rights in legislation, a prominent judge. I think jurists don't get the wide recognition they sometimes deserve, while artists, architects, doctors, politicians, or people in the military do receive public recognition.
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 United States
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The one change I wish and dream for is that the US dump the zincoln cent. No disrespect to Honest Abe, but they are worthless trash which cost more to produce than they are worth and have the lowest life expectancy of any coin produced in the history of the United States. Virtually useless in commercial transactions, and generally reviled by the majority of the populace. They are not worth the ergs of energy to carry them around or the wear and tear they inflict on my pocket. But that's just my opinion.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Jimmy Carter.
Four years as a mediocre president, followed by forty years as a wonderful human being.
Oh ... he goes on the new 2 1/2 cent piece that replaces the zincoln.
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03/13/2023 9:39 pm
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Under US law ( USC 31 section 5114b), only deceased people are allowed to be depicted on US notes. Quote:
...Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities. The name of the individual shall be inscribed below the portrait. If you want to see that amended to allow portraits of living people on US notes, you'll need to get Congress to change the law. And let's be real: given the current situation in Washington, that isn't going to happen just so they can put Obama on a note. The proscription against putting living persons on currency has been US law since 1866 - when the Superintendent of the government printing works decided to put his own personal portrait on some fractional currency. US politicians of all sides, wary of the slippery slope that changing this law might create, have left it alone. So you can put anybody you like onto a banknote design, so long as they're not still breathing. Treasury is still planning to put Harriet Tubman on the $20; the next scheduled date for changing the design of the $20 is 2030. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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Personally, I'd like to see them get back to lady liberty and maybe start a new era of classic coin designs.
Get some artists and maybe show them some SLQs and walkers and explain how these designs came into being and tell them to have at it.
Bite the bullet and ditch the Lincolns and dollar bills and go from there.
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United States
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I think the US went off the deep end with the State Quarters! They can always make a "special" circulating coin but, stop with all of the annual varieties. We don't need to celebrate everyone and everything on our coinage! Other than coin collectors, I don't think that most people even look at them. Edited by dsking
03/14/2023 7:34 pm
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United States
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TSOTL said: Quote:
Personally, I'd like to see them get back to lady liberty and maybe start a new era of classic coin designs.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm good with what we have and where it may be going--at least as far ahead as we can see. I have no beef with the quarter series--a nuisance to some, desired by others.
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United States
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A $3.00 coin modeled after a type 1 3 cent piece but of 75% copper and 25% nickel composition (with original silver composition for collectors  ). Or more likely a $2.00 coin made of 95% copper and 5% zinc modeled after a 2 cent piece.  |
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Topic StarterUnited States
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Wow, I'm thoroughly impressed with some of these answers. @JulioEC...I'm from the US besides that I understand what you are saying if I lived where you do. I hope they for you they pick a lawyer. Stay safe @Sap... this was for fun no needn't get so deep and serious. They did have plans to change alot of things but it never came to flourition and besides we know that the government could do whatever they want when they want regardless of whatever the law is right lol Thank you for your post for some people may not have known but I believe most did. That they had to be dead presents @khromtau...very interesting @ijn1944...answered kinda what my sentiments are toward the quarters I liked everyone's point of view. I'd like to here more but nonetheless all good answers it was fun reading them. Maybe one day somenones response will come true  |
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Personally, I'd like to see them get back to lady liberty and maybe start a new era of classic coin designs. There would be no resistance from me. 
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Do you think they'll make a Obama note or coin instead of waiting till he passes? As mentioned, under the law he can't appear on the currency until he passes. He is already in line to appear on a dollar coin (assuming they continue to pass legislation for a new Presidential dollar as each president passes.) Although they could always decide not to wait for two years after he passes. Heck they could even go ahead and issue it while he is still alive. There is no general law that requires a person appearing on a coin to be deceased. There is nothing to keep them from doing that. (When the President dollars were first authorized it was mandated that the President had to have been dead for two years before being honored. But that legislation expired in 2016. So a new President dollar authorization would not HAVE to have that same restriction. (If they drop that rule when Carter passes, Roselynn Carter could potentially become the seventh person to have a coin struck while still alive. Nancy Reagan was number six.)
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