# Money: Who would YOU put on our currency? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350 "2006-05-19T01:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/41 "2006-05-22T12:08:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Florence Nightingale on the fifty, Grand idea, but she is, yanno, British. Not that there is anything wrong with being British. I’d liked to see somewhere: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & susan B Anthony ( one on each side.) Carrie Nation ( why not?) (an axe on the back) Sojourner Truth Elizabeth Peratovich ( a picture of alaska on the back) Jane Goodall. ( apes on the back) Calamity Jane ( why not) booze, cards and guns on the back side. Ester Morris ( first woman to hold a political office in the US) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/42 "2006-05-22T12:12:19Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Ester Morris ( first woman to hold a political office in the US) Good thought! There are far too few women on money (Lizzie Chips excluded)…don’t forget colours though! We went with Kate Shepard. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/43 "2006-05-22T12:28:09Z")
I want all the colors to glow in the dark. Is that asking too much? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/44 "2006-05-22T12:35:56Z")
> [@Martini Enfield](#): > > Who? > > Evidently you’re not a member of [DNRC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNRC)… Bow…BOW! Before the glory of the [WINK-MEISTER!](http://www.winkmartindale.com/) fnord ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/45 "2006-05-22T12:47:25Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I want all the colors to glow in the dark. > Is that asking too much? Hey the plastic notes _almost_ do! But even better they will go through the washing machine AND dryer and still be recognisable, spendable and COLOURFUL 🙂 And while they don’t glow in the dark it is much easier to tell a green note from a yellowey/orangey note in the dark…not that I have ever exchanged money in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/46 "2006-05-22T16:33:00Z")
Artists and musicians and writers. That’s what you need. Or cities. Or spacecraft. Something non-political, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/47 "2006-05-22T16:38:06Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I’d put Robert Oppenheimer on _something._ Maybe a Tritium $5 coin? (See someone mistake THAT for a quarter.) Yeah, especially since tritium is a gas. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/48 "2006-05-22T18:27:58Z")
$1 - James Dean $2 - William Holden $5 - Clint Eastwood $10 - Jimmy Stewart $50 - Humphry Bogart $100 - John Wayne ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/49 "2006-05-22T18:32:03Z")
Oh hell, I copied my list from the one person that left out the $20… $20 - Spencer Tracy ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/50 "2006-05-23T01:34:08Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Yeah, especially since tritium is a gas. 😃 Yeah, and we know there’s [no way to use it in self-illuminating solid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traser)…aw, forget it. :smack: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/51 "2006-05-23T02:24:40Z")
.01: Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch .05: Joey Ramone .10: Lucy Liu (ohhh, sweet Lucy Liu) .25: Willie Nelson $1: Hank Aaron $5: Sissy Spacek $10: Tom Waits $20: Ella Fitzgerald $50: Buster Keaton $100: Ralph Ellison (I was going to include Mark Twain and Johnny Cash, but others had already named them so I figured I’d go with new names.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/52 "2006-05-23T14:44:33Z")
$1 - LaToya $2 - Jermaine $5 - Michael $10 - Tito $20 - Jackie $50 - Marlon $100 - Janet ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/53 "2006-05-23T17:56:16Z")
I would want to see artists, composers, authors, scientists. Since probably no one besides me will think of composers, here are some: $1 - Leonard Bernstein $2 - Charles Ives (yes! bring back the $2 bill!) $5 - George Gershwin $10 - Aaron Copland $20 - Duke Ellington $100 - Ruth Crawford Seeger ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/54 "2006-05-23T17:59:29Z")
Oops, I need a $50, so how about: Bernard Hermann ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/55 "2006-05-23T21:01:42Z")
Nikola Tesla, definitely (and no Thomas Edison, either!). > [@](#): > > Animals. > > Wolf, turkey, bison (nickle, already there), whale($1), amoeba (penny), octopus and others. > > I think it’d make for very beautiful currency. I think I like this idea best. I’d get rid of the whale and the invertebrates and include the mountain lion, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep, rattlesnake, grizzly bear, and (so it’s not forgotten) the late, lamented passenger pigeon. Maybe raccoons and sea otters as well – any charismatic animal that’s identifiable with North America. The backs of bills could have well-known American landscapes and natural features. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/56 "2006-05-23T21:42:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > $1 - LaToya > $2 - Jermaine > $5 - Michael > $10 - Tito > $20 - Jackie > $50 - Marlon > $100 - Janet Michael needs to be on the $3. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/57 "2006-05-24T01:19:05Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I’d like to see $25 bill with Donald Duck on it. Even better - a $100 bill featuring Scrooge McDuck. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/58 "2006-05-24T04:14:45Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > Even better - a $100 bill featuring Scrooge McDuck. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/59 "2006-05-24T12:13:05Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > Even better - a $100 bill featuring Scrooge McDuck. And IRS forms with the Beagle Boys on em. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350/60 "2006-05-24T15:23:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Michael needs to be on the $3. Probably, I just figured he’d always represented the 5. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-who-would-you-put-on-our-currency/357350.md?page=2)