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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by coinsearcher83
06/17/2015 9:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think if a portrait was to be replaced it should be on the $5, $2, or $1, since the people depicted on those bills are also depicted on coinage.
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Pillar of the Community
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I feel like they might take a swing at all the notes then. This change is just more publicized to appease the public.
On that note, I hope they drastically change the designs of the notes, but still keep somewhat of a classical styling (not too uber modern). Today's colorized notes are so similar to the last generation (big heads) that they're almost like what I'd come up with in a strange dream or something.
Edited by coinsearcher83
06/17/2015 9:53 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The treasury secretary Jack Lew, is also an ignoramus, today in reference to the change he stated, "We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation." I guess he's never seen a copy of Friedberg's Paper Money of the United States.
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Shows how things are different. We replaced a woman with a man on our ten dollar banknote 44 years ago . Hardly a word spoken about it then. Now if we can just get her off the coins and the twenty.  |
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In this hobby, "change" is good! :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I imagine the values of uncirculated Hamilton series $10's will spike once they start pulling them from circulation after the new female bills come out.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll be sad. Hamilton is my last name.
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Pillar of the Community
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Reports are indicating that Hamilton won't be entirely replaced, but complemented with the new woman on the bill. We could potentially see two famous people on the obverse of the bill (which hasn't been done since what, the Bison Note with Lewis & Clark)? Or, Hamilton could remain on the reverse, in front of the Treasury building, like he has since 1928.
Edited by SilverRoosevelt
06/17/2015 11:08 pm
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United States
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I think they should leave Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. I see absolutely no reason why the bill or any other for that reason should be changed. Instead of messing with the actual currency designs, we have more pressing issues to contend with. Just another stupid distraction this government of ours has come up with to well, creating solutions to problems that shouldn't even exist in the first place.
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Pillar of the Community
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From a numismatic standpoint, I couldn't care less about anything after the small portrait era. So I say go ahead and change them however they like.  |
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Hamilton is very low on my list of human beings, so for personal reasons I am glad he is going.  |
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Edited by aardspeed
06/18/2015 10:01 am
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Now they are saying that the $10 was up for redesign so that is why they are putting a woman on there but with the $20 being the most popular and used bill I think they are happy using the Ten in case of a huge backlash it wouldn't hurt that badly... But I am curious though, I wonder if we will see an uptick with $5's and $1's being asked for...
If they put Lady Liberty on it (which they won't) I will gladly spend them... Otherwise, unless they are Star notes or fancy serial numbers, I will probably just trade them for ones, twos and fives and spend those....
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Posted 06/17/2015 9:51 pm
