# Choose New VIPs for U.S. Bills and Coins **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 17, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824 "2012-01-17T20:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/1 "2012-01-17T20:32:38Z")
$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. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/2 "2012-01-17T21:01:47Z")
$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 ---
**Author:** ![littlespeedysuperbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@littlespeedysuperbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/littlespeedysuperbike)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/3 "2012-01-18T06:34:07Z")
$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 ---
**Author:** ![littlespeedysuperbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@littlespeedysuperbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/littlespeedysuperbike)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/4 "2012-01-18T06:37:45Z")
$200 bill - Teddy Roosevelt $500 bill - Orville and Wilbur Wright $1000 bill - Ulysses Grant All three should be in circulation. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/5 "2012-01-18T07:45:42Z")
$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 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/6 "2012-01-18T11:39:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/7 "2012-01-18T11:46:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/8 "2012-01-18T11:52:13Z")
$3 bill - Kim Kardashian ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/9 "2012-01-18T12:52:20Z")
I’d suggest Alfred E. Newman for the $1.00bill -“What-Me Worry?” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/10 "2012-01-18T13:18:58Z")
$100 Susan B. Anthony $50 Eisenhower $20 JFK $10 MLK $5 Lincoln $1 Washington Quarter Washington Dime FDR Nickel Jefferson Penny Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/11 "2012-01-18T13:29:56Z")
$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 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/12 "2012-01-18T14:48:21Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Quarter - Curtis LeMay 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) ---
**Author:** ![murrmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@murrmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murrmac)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-vips-for-u-s-bills-and-coins/609824/13 "2012-01-18T15:13:22Z")
$9 bill - Liberace