$100
$50
$20
$10
$5
$1
Quarter
Dime
Nickel
Penny
Let’s ignore less common coins like the dollar.
Basic ground rules:
Mostly Presidents
Must be dead
Attempt to choose from various eras
Avoid obvious biases, like choosing politicians from a single party.
You can use a few existing VIPs, but they can’t stay on their current bill/coin.
$100 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
$50 Earl Warren
$20 Lincoln
$10 Reagan
$5 Teddy Roosevelt
$1 none, do away with the dollar bill
Quarter Madison or Jefferson, I can’t decide
Dime John Adams
Nickel Franklin
Penny none, do away with penny
$100 - Robert Goddard
$50 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
$20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
$10 - Robert F. Kennedy
$5 - Harry Truman
$2 - Enrico Fermi
$1 (bill) - Franklin D. Roosevelt
$1 (coin) - Frances Perkins
50c - Thomas Jefferson
25c - Lyndon Johnson
10c - George Washington
5c - Abraham Lincoln
1c - Nikola Tesla
$200 bill - Teddy Roosevelt
$500 bill - Orville and Wilbur Wright
$1000 bill - Ulysses Grant
All three should be in circulation.
$100 - George Washington
$50 - Theodore Roosevelt
$20 - Abraham Lincoln
$10 - Sitting Bull
$5 - MLK jr.
$1 - JFK
Quarter - Crazy Horse
Dime - John Brown
Nickel - Nat Turner
Penny - Rosa Parks
Hmmm, can’t run down the whole list right now but I’ve long strongly held the opinion that the next face to grace U.S. currency should be Frederick Douglass.
I don’t care about your stipulations.
add a $500 bill - Hedy Lamarr
$100 - Thelonious Monk
$50 - Sojourner Truth - was going to be F. Douglass but I wanted more women
$20 - Samuel Clemens
$10 - Thomas Alva Edison
$5 - John Muir
$2 - Irving Berlin (lowest bill)
$1 coin - bring back Sacagawea
Half Dollar - Thomas Paine
Quarter - Benjamin Franklin
Dime - Rachel Carson
5-cent - Bob Denver
1-cent -discontinued due to inflation
I wanted John Brown but I checked myself. Glad to see someone else suggested him.
$3 bill - Kim Kardashian
I’d suggest Alfred E. Newman for the $1.00bill -“What-Me Worry?”
$100 Susan B. Anthony
$50 Eisenhower
$20 JFK
$10 MLK
$5 Lincoln
$1 Washington
Quarter Washington
Dime FDR
Nickel Jefferson
Penny Lincoln
$100 - Richard Nixon
$50 - George W. Bush
$20 - William Jefferson Clinton
$10 - Andrew Jackson
$5 - Joseph McCarthy
$1 - J. Edgar Hoover
Quarter - Curtis LeMay
Dime - Oliver North
Nickel - John Wilkes Booth
Penny - Donald Trump
Don’t you mean Qin Sui Huangdi?
Adjusting for inflation as others have:
$500 - Lincoln
$100 - Franklin
$50 - Albert Einstein (back of the bill should honor achievements of immigrants)
$20 - Martin Luther King (back of the bill should honor the civil rights movement)
$10 - Mark Twain
$5 (lowest bill) - Washington
$1 coin - rotating series of cultural icons–authors, composers, poets. Yes, a copout, but it’s a good idea I think.
25 cents - Harriet Tubman
10 cents - Woodrow Wilson (back of the coin honors education)
5 cents (lowest coin) - Dwight Eisenhower (back of the coin honors service to country)
$9 bill - Liberace