# Obama on currency **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807 "2008-12-27T03:13:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 30, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/41 "2008-12-30T12:19:12Z")
Sir Edmund Hillary is on the NZ $5 note, and has been for many years. He didn’t die until earlier this year, so there’s certainly a precedent for putting living people on currency. Also, Queen Elizabeth II is on the currency of the UK and several Commonwealth countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Fiji, and The Bahamas, although that’s not quite the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/42 "2008-12-30T17:36:33Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Sir Edmund Hillary is on the NZ $5 note, and has been for many years. He didn’t die until earlier this year, so there’s certainly a precedent for putting living people on currency. In the US, though, [there is not](http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/f/coin_portraits.htm). In fact, wildlife depicted on US coins and currency are immediately killed and made into a delicious stew after their images are cast, so as not to break this tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/43 "2008-12-30T17:50:03Z")
I just read my entire link and lo and behold, it’s Roosevelt on the dime; I thought it was Eisenhower. Sorry about that. Haven’t had change in my pocket in a long time. I’m rethinking the whole idea of the Obama dime now. Maybe they can revive the twenty cent piece and put him on that. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/44 "2008-12-30T18:14:50Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I’m all for replacing Jackson on the $20. He was a disgusting genocidal racist. I’d even settle for Reagan on it instead. But only so I could draw little Hitler moustaches on each one that passed through my hands. Oooo, that would be illegal! But I’d do it! Plus, he’s an _ugly_ mofo. Seriously–every time I look at the $20, I think, “that guy was an _ugly_ mofo!” I like the idea of the Hitler moustaches. > [@EpiGirl](#): > > I thought this thread would be about those wacky colored coins being hustled on those annoying commercials with Montel Williams. We say “African-American coins” now, dear. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/45 "2008-12-30T20:11:11Z")
I should note that I don’t necessarily think he will be a great president, just that it’s clear to me that he will be VIEWED as a great president, regardless (almost) of what he does. Sort of like Kennedy. I just want to be recognized as first in predicting his (more or less) permanent likeness on our official US currency; though I will likely be dead before it happens. I’ll make the prediction that before 2108 he will make it. You youngsters out there; remember this. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807/46 "2008-12-30T21:15:28Z")
Looks like the gag [Three Dollar Bills](http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/abc_ann_obama_bill_080828_mn.jpg) have already hit the streets. I’m sure the [Hell Bank Notes](http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes/china/china_hellnotekennedy.JPG) aren’t far behind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-on-currency/478807.md?page=2)