$1: A male Deer.
$5: Huckleberry Finn.
$10: Bread.
$20: Jackson Pollock.
$50: Kermit the Frog.
$100: Benjamin Lee Whorf (Runner-up Ben Affleck gets the $100 coin).
(Apologies to Eric Flint)
My opinion may sound vehement, but I find the idea of adorning banknotes or coins with monarchs, presidents and the like quite lamentable. I would resort to natonal icons instead. I do enjoy figurative art but worshipping a person by means of his/her picture seems to me trite and puerile.
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Thomas Paine should be on something. I may be wrong, but istm, without his rabble rousing this country might not even be.
Agreed, but he went bad near the end, accusing President Washington of being corrupt and power-hungry. That left him in a very bad odor.
Good thread!
$1: Jesse Owens
$5: Henry Ford
$10: Thomas Edison
$20: Martin Luther King, Jr.
$100: Neil Armstrong
I vacillated a little bit between Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie, and Neil Armstrong and Charles Lindbergh. I figured one anti-Semite was enough.
ETA: I’m also continuing to vacillate between Owens and a musician. Maybe Hendrix.
I agree with those suggesting Franklin should remain on the $100 bill. But his portrait should be changed to have him giving a wink and a nod, and perhaps holding up a mug of… beverage.
…was British. Why are the Canadians claiming him?
They have a lot of diseases.
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sylvia Plath should be somewhere.
Seconded. He’d approve!
I doubt many would view it as ‘worshipping’ a person.
For us in the UK, the Queen is ‘literally’ the figurehead of the nation, like a flag or a national bird, so she appears on one side.
Then on the reverse is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of notable citizens, such as Charles Darwin who currently adorns our £10 note, or Jane Austin who is soon to replace him. We’ve all sorts over the year, from Wellington and Newton to Shakespeare. These are all national icons in their way.
Is she any relation to “Stone Cold” Steve? I think Jane Austen would be a better choice.
Maybe Eleanor Roosevelt on the new $10?
$1: Nicola Tesla *
$2: Edison **
$5: George Washington Carver
$10: Hedy Lamarr ***
$20: Wright Brothers
$50: Robert Goddard
$100: Benjamin Franklin
- Elon Musk did bid enough.
** Eddy, you get that for not giving credit to Tesla!
*** In keeping up with the idea that a woman will get the ten, A great actress and an inventor too.
I was thinking along similar lines, but I’d like to see Richard Feynman in the mix.