The “tooney”, actually.
That puts “fin” and “sawbuck” to shame! Why can’t our money have cool names?
I like the All-Founder Era idea. It minimizes the “politics” of currency while giving us a chance to honor some of the people that don’t get nearly enough press.
.01 - John Jay
.05 - Alexander Hamilton
.10 - John Adams
.25 - Thomas Jefferson
1.00 - George Washington
5.00 - John Marshall
10.00 - Abigail Adams
20.00 - James Madison
50.00 - Gouverneur Morris
100.00 - Benjamin Franklin
Any objections to that? 
Goodie for them…
But what is the PURPOSE of a $2 coin? What’s the point? Why have one? What advantages does it give you over 2 $1 coins?
WHY?
If you’re absolutely forced to carry coins, the less of 'em you have to carry the better off you are.
Personally, I’d hate to see the US eliminate the 1$ note.
Are you talking about Captain Grace Murray Hopper, the early computer expert? No way she was black, unless you mean like 1/254th black.
I’m guessing you’ve never worked a cash register or it’s been a long time since you have.
Think for a bit.
Let’s say I go to the ATM and get out a $20 dollar bill and I buy something that costs six bucks from you.
Would you rather give me
four single bills and a ten.
two $2 bills and a ten.
Two $2 coins and a ten
four $1 coins and a ten.
But what is the PURPOSE of a dime? What’s the point? Why have one? What advantages does it give you over 2 nickels?
I have always thought that US currency should show historical places rather than people. You’d have to go quite far on the extreme wings on the left or the right to object to the Liberty Bell. How about a bill which shows the coast of California? The Alamo? (OK, Mexico may not like it.) The Kennedy Space Center. Plymouth Rock? The White House?
FYI, Canada would likely consider this a minor declaration of cultural war
I have done retail, and I’d rather give you four $1 coins and a ten. It is faster and easier to grab 4 coins from the same pile than it is to grab 2 coins each from 2 piles. THere is also less room for error; you can easily count 4 of something, but if you have 2 of one thing and 2 of another that are similar, you have to pay attention; I’d rather just drop the coins one at a time and know “there are 4 coins, so this is 4 dollars”
This may seem similar on the surgace, but that isn’t how money steps itself. We block it into units of 5 with 1s to make up the change. As I mentioend above, having 1 set of 1 is easier than 2 sets of 2.
Gonna start pressing for a 2 cent piece now, too? It’d make fewer coins getting .69 change back, but know what? It’d be a pain in the ass.
I remember an episode of The West Wing where the White House staffers were trying to think of a reason not to discontinue the penny. (I mean, what can you buy with a penny? A chiclet from a gum machine? And couldn’t change be rounded to the nearest nickel? Who would mind?) They finally came up a reason, but I forget what it was.
Zagadka,
Don’t forget, the Canadian dollar is worth less than the American dollar. This means that hardly anything costs less than a dollar there while a large amount of things fall into that odd dollar and change price category. This makes a two dollar coin more convenient for a lot of purchases.
As far as actual buying power goes, a Loony is more akin to an American half dollar than to an American dollar.
(I know the loony is worth more than 50 US cents, I’m just going for an approximate analogy as far as practical convenience)
In a pinch, it can be used as a screwdriver.
Sorry, don’t get it – but I haven’t seen all the Marx Bros. flicks.
Savings bonds images, to give you an idea who gets on stuff when no one is paying attention. MLK is on the $100 I bond, Einstein on the $1000 I bond. They followed an “all founding fathers’” theme for the EE bond.
Actually, he was Minister to France (and to England, I believe), and as such was crucially important to getting international recognition and support to the young republic.
For those of you suggesting Grant should be eliminated, I would agree if the issue were only his service as President, but if you add in his command of the U.S. military forces in the Civil War, he’s as deserving of recognition as most of the other incumbents and proposed new faces. Similarly, if you add Eisenhower’s command of the European forces in WWII to his presidency, he is clearly one of the most significant 20th Century Americans.
Well you can have cool names or money thats worth something
Choose
Declan
Check out “Night at the Opera”, specfically the famous “Stateroom Scene”.
Random comments-
Isn’t Sacagawea a person of color AKA “clr*d person” (a term I find archaic but not really perjorative)? And how can one dislike the S coin? It has a baby too!
For the Grant haters, I suggest keeping him BUT adding another figure on the bill- either Lee (maybe the pic of Grant & Lee at Richmond) OR in a ghostly image behind Grant, Samuel Clemens (I didn’t know till this past month that SLC has ghosted USG’s autobiography).
I want a Great Seal Coin so I could make a cool Illuminati or American Israel medallion of it.