# Reagan on the $10?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 8, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294 "2004-06-08T16:23:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/21 "2004-06-08T21:32:59Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> IMO Hamilton was a scoundrel. I’d rather have Porky the Pig on the $10 than Hamilton…
**Crafter** , could you explain your disdain for AH more fully?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/22 "2004-06-08T22:18:45Z")
How about we stick Ronnie on the $2, dump Andy off the $20 and replace him with Walt Whitman?
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/23 "2004-06-08T22:25:53Z")
Can we put Bush on $0 bill, that would sum him up nicely?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/24 "2004-06-08T22:26:24Z")
The only problem with putting Reagan on a $10 bill is that soon afterward it will only be worth a fraction of its former value, and will eventually need to be accompanied by a $20 bill in order to be worth the original $10.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/25 "2004-06-08T22:34:23Z")
Mm-hm. They also introduced a notion in Congress to have Ronnie added to Mount Rushmore.
Precisely WHAT did the man do that allovasudden has the Neocons wanting his mug all over the place? Besides die, that is.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/26 "2004-06-08T23:04:27Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#):
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> Mm-hm. They also introduced a notion in Congress to have Ronnie added to Mount Rushmore.
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> Precisely WHAT did the man do that allovasudden has the Neocons wanting his mug all over the place? Besides die, that is.
Actually, I remember hearing them wanting to place Ronnie on Rushmore back in the 80s, a noted geologist pointed out that the rockface wouldn’t be able to withstand the necessary work to add _any_ face to the mountain, and it would bring the whole side of the mountain down, thus ruining the existing artwork.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/27 "2004-06-08T23:20:41Z")
> [@stuyguy](#):
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> **Crafter** , could you explain your disdain for AH more fully?
Or, barring that, your reverance for Porky Pig?
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/28 "2004-06-09T00:33:58Z")
Create a $3.00 bill.
Make sure everyone knows it is really worth only $0.35.
Put the worthless POS’s picture on that.
Put a picture of Mickey Damn Mouse on the other side.
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/29 "2004-06-09T01:12:26Z")
Put his face on the $100,000 bill and watch as it eventually trickles down to the $1 bill.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/30 "2004-06-09T01:25:28Z")
It is absolutely inconceivable that any of the current honorees would be for a second considered so low as to be replaced by an actor on a coin/bill. That would be just too darn insulting. All of the current honorees (of coins/bills still being made) have legions of fans. They would be POed big time.
So, go with a new denomination. That should stall things until Rational Thought comes back into vogue. (So I’m an optimist.)
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/31 "2004-06-09T01:56:30Z")
I think we should put Reagan on the penny, and then follow [William Safire’s advice](http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/24632.php).
Personally, i’d like to see Madison and/or Jefferson on a commonly-circulating piece of paper currency. In fact, i’d be quite happy for the Jefferson $2 bill to come into regualr circulation.
I completely agree with those who want to get rid of Grant. I can never look at a $50 bill without thinking of Henry Adams’s opinion that Grant was a challenge to those who believed in evolution. From _The Education of Henry Adams_:
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> That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called–and should actually and truly be–the highest product of the most advanced evolution, made evolution ludicrous. One must be as commonplace as Grant’s own commonplaces to maintain such an absurdity. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/32 "2004-06-09T01:57:47Z")
> [@LouisB](#):
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> Create a $3.00 bill.
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> Make sure everyone knows it is really worth only $0.35.
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> Put the worthless POS’s picture on that.
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> Put a picture of Mickey Damn Mouse on the other side.
Tell us how you really feel!
😃
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/33 "2004-06-09T02:04:38Z")
> [@stuyguy](#):
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> To mark the milestone – and capture some of the convention traffic – the New-York Historical Society is planning a unprecedented mega-exhibit around Hamilton’s considerable contributions to our city and nation!
I bet they’re ticked that the actual duel was in Weehawken… NJ!
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/34 "2004-06-09T02:07:16Z")
Put me in the ‘replace Jackson’ camp.
Why the hell we keep a homicidal psychopath on a piece of currency is beyond me. If it takes Reagan to move him then so be it.
And the Rushmore thing is really just Grover Norquist being a freak again (something he excels at). I caught an interview with him earlier where he (sorta tongue in cheek) claimed that Hamilton should be replaced because Hamilton was a ‘bad shot’. Evidently Norquist digs the guns and thinks Hamilton should have been able to kill Burr.
Freak, I tell you. He’s a freak!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/35 "2004-06-09T02:14:33Z")
> [@RandomLetters](#):
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> Get rid of that scum-bag, good for nothing, Jackson.
I agree with the last part. 🙂
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/36 "2004-06-09T02:15:17Z")
$1 - George Washington
$2 - Thomas Jefferson (yes, these still circulate)
$5 - Abraham Lincoln
$10 - Alexander Hamilton
$20 - Andrew Jackson
$50 - Ulysses S. Grant
$100 - Benjamin Franklin
1¢ - Abraham Lincoln
5¢ - Thomas Jefferson
10¢ - Franklin D. Roosevelt
25¢ - George Washington
50¢ - John F. Kennedy
_100¢ - Sacajawea_
The song “one of these things are not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong” run through my head, and make a perfect opening for R. Reagan.
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### Author:  [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/37 "2004-06-09T02:55:03Z")
> [@SmackFu](#):
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> I bet they’re ticked that the actual duel was in Weehawken… NJ!
Funny. The highlight of the exhibit will probably be the actual dueling pistols which have been locked away in the vaults of Chase Manhattan Bank for decades. (You will recall that both Hamilton & Burr founded banks, the Bank of NY and today’s Chase Manhattan respectively. Both still exist. Burr founded Chase under the guise of starting a water-supply company for thirsty Manhattan. The charter allowed the company to, in essence, operate as a bank – Burr’s real objective. They did actually lay some water pipes, it should be said.) Why does Chase have both guns you may wonder. Well, they both belonged to Burr. It was customary for the challenger to supply the weapons for a duel.
The city of Weehawken, I am told, is planning to re-enact the duel (perhaps with the aid of the N-YHS). That should be fun.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/38 "2004-06-09T03:01:01Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> it would bring the whole side of the mountain down
It would trickle down?
🙂
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/39 "2004-06-09T03:04:05Z")
> [@stuyguy](#):
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> Chase Manhattan respectively.
I owe credit card debt to Aaron Burr?
Man, that sucks.
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### Author:  [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/40 "2004-06-09T03:04:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> It would trickle down?
> 🙂
OK than- they don’t have to add a face ---- all they have to do is chisel off Teddy’s glasses and moustache — the result should look like Reagan. Put Teddy on the 10 dollar bill.
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