# 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:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/61 "2004-06-09T10:49:17Z")
I’d like to see President Reagan replace Indian Hater Jackson on the 20.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/62 "2004-06-09T11:46:56Z")
How about the half-dollar? I still don’t understand what made JFK so great that he was worth putting on money, so we can replace one baby-boomer-favorite president with another.
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/63 "2004-06-09T13:38:58Z")
> [@stuyguy](#):
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> **Crafter** , could you explain your disdain for AH more fully?
I don’t want to get into a debate here, but from what I’ve read, **Alexander Hamilton** was a bit of a scoundrel. During the Constitutional Convention (CC), he traveled back and forth between the State House (in Philadelphia) and NYC about a half-a-dozen times. At least one historian has theorized that the only reason he attended the CC was to take notes and share them with his banking buddies in NYC. The bankers, in turn, would give him instructions on what to include in the constitution. AH would then go back to the CC and spout off for a couple days, while everyone else in attendance more-or-less ignored him. He would then travel back to NYC to update the bankers, and the cycle would continue.
Being the pompous aristocrat he was, AH’s writings would seem to indicate he despised the idea of democracy, favoring a plutocracy or “judocracy” instead. He was the ultimate Federalists, and a proponent an all-powerful, energetic government. He was a staunch defender of the Sedition Act. Thomas Jefferson hated him, Abigail Adams called him “another Bonaparte”, and Noah Webster called him "the Evil Genius.” I’m certainly not a fan of Aaron Burr, but I do have to give him credit for shooting the bastard.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/64 "2004-06-09T13:40:53Z")
And that’s the reason for the push to get RWR on money, because JFK is on it.
One our guys almost got impeached so let’s impeach one of theirs.
One of their guys recently got on money so one of ours should be too.
Isn’t IKE on some money somewhere? Replace IKE with Raygun.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/65 "2004-06-09T13:48:25Z")
All in all, I am for any excuse for a radical redesign of American bank notes and (even more) coins.
They are really bad.
(OTOH Euros are much worse.)
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### Author:  [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/66 "2004-06-09T14:17:27Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> …shooting the bastard.
Literally. [Grinny here.]
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/67 "2004-06-09T15:39:37Z")
> [@Already in Use](#):
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> We should make like pre-Euro France and put naked tits and great cultural icons on our money.
Naked tits _are_ our great cultural icon!
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/68 "2004-06-09T15:40:47Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> Isn’t IKE on some money somewhere?
DDE was on a non-silver dollar. More or less looked the same as a silver dollar but alloy like quarters. Went the way of all dollar coins.
While DDE was a mediocre president at best, giving RWR a leg up over someone who was still a much better, and far better liked, president is yet another insult.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/69 "2004-06-09T15:54:54Z")
> [@Already in Use](#):
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> We should make like pre-Euro France and put naked tits and great cultural icons on our money.
Oh, good Lord no! How would we ever prevent our children from seeing naked breasts then? We’d have to give them all credit cards, which would put them all in debt before they’re old enough to have jobs! This will increase the debt problem in our country 20 fold! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/70 "2004-06-09T17:23:01Z")
Dollar coin, Ashcroft on heads and Justice with her breasts for tails.
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### Author:  [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/71 "2004-06-09T18:52:23Z")
My vote is no coin or dollar at all.
FYI,
There is a poll on [MSN.com](http://MSN.com) asking if he should be on the $10. Last I checked more than 51K had voted and it was a virtual dead heat at 51% no and 49% Yes. Of couse it is only an internet poll but I bet the an actual “non partisan” polling comp would come to the similar reults.
If it was the case there is hardly enough public support to substantiate the change. Then again it is the US Govt.
BTW, if this continues to be an issue, I wouldn’t be surprised is a Commemerative Regan coin is minted for a limited time. I bet the Franklin Mint is already sending out mailings as we speak. Why not steal their thunder.
Perhaps it could be on the 25th aniversary of the Arms to Iran scam.
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### Author:  [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/72 "2004-06-09T19:05:05Z")
I’d be happy to see Jackson ditched if someone worthwhile, like MLK or John Adams, replaced him.
Hamilton had his shortcomings, but it seems fitting that the architect of our monetary system should be recognized.
Revisionist badmouthing of Franklin is asinine. Without him, this country wouldn’t exist.
As for Reagan, stick the SOB in the ground and forget about him.
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### Author:  [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/73 "2004-06-09T19:20:28Z")
Please, no Reagan face on currency. I’m still cheesed enough about “In God We Trust.”
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/74 "2004-06-09T19:48:25Z")
> [@kelly5078](#):
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> Revisionist badmouthing of Franklin is asinine. Without him, this country wouldn’t exist.
He was pretty cool.
[http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/mistress.html](http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/mistress.html)
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/75 "2004-06-09T20:10:40Z")
I say we do away with using politicians altogether. Let’s put our most beloved comedians on our currency. Put Jerry Seinfeld on the $10 – that just screams quality! And Bill Murray is an obvious one for the $50; he seems kind of “Grantish” to me. Steven Wright seems $100 billish. Whoopie Goldberg on the $5. And the founder of modern comedy, George Burns on the $1. Who would be right for the $20, though? Hmmm. Let’s go with Bob Hope. And finally, of course, Ellen Degeneres on the $3.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/76 "2004-06-09T20:28:10Z")
Stick Robin Williams on the $100 and you’ve got my vote.
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### Author:  [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/77 "2004-06-09T20:28:35Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> And finally, of course, Ellen Degeneres on the $3.
😃
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/78 "2004-06-09T20:41:59Z")
$5.00 Chico
$10.00 Harpo
$20.00 Zeppo
$50.00 Groucho
$1.00 Margaret Dumond…Hmm, I’m not _sure_ that’s George…
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### Author:  [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/79 "2004-06-09T20:51:19Z")
Groucho would be pretty pissed to be seen so rarely.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-on-the-10/249294/80 "2004-06-09T21:10:41Z")
> [@kelly5078](#):
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> Groucho would be pretty pissed to be seen so rarely.
In that case, how about:
Groucho $1
Chico $5
Harpo $10
Zeppo $20
Dumont $50
Feel freet to switch the $20 and $50 if you want.
Or just stick them all in a group potrait on the $5.
In that case we can go:
Chaplin $1
Marx Bros $5
Three Stooges $10
Laurel and Hardy $20
Abbot and Costello $50
Then you could say “That’ll cost ya a marx”.
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