Twenty-dollar bill going from Andrew Jackson to Harriet Tubman

[Gothmog]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

1. That's gonna bring out the racists... May they send all their "spoiled" $20s to me!

[DonaldsRump]

10. They're all out in the open anyway

This should have already occurred by now had Trump and his henchpeople not stopped it. It no doubt will infuriate the racists, but to hell with them.

This, rather than white supremacy, is unity!

[hlthe2b]

12. Of course it should have occured by now.

[Mr.Bill]

16. Yes, they wear red hats.

Easy to spot.

[sheshe2]

54. They were holding out for the twenty for Donnie.

Welp. 20 to life works for me.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

57. The only paper Trump's face belongs on.....

is toilet paper. To be used liberally.

Kudos for the 20 to life comment!

[sheshe2]

59. Flushing him works for me.

However his face? Not letting him that close to me.

Welcome to DU...and thank you, Prof.

[live love laugh]

67. Good. I hope it drives them crazy(er). nt

[greenjar_01]

2. Recall that this was planned in 2016, then Trump and Mnuchin killed it

Because they're racist shitheads.

Good on Biden for reviving this change.

[BannonsLiver]

3. Long overdue.

[Walleye]

4. The right wingers should get together and have $20 bill burning parties

[Dan]

8. Any chance you could have them send them to me?

[Walleye]

11. We should encourage them to get rid of the filthy things as quickly as possible 🤪😆

[Blue_true]

60. Send them a message that you have a big furnace all fired up and ready to go,

to just be ready to forklift those pallets of twenties on your big truck when you show up.

[Walleye]

63. Brilliant idea!

[SergeStorms]

73. A furnace fueled by...

ALL AMERICAN FREEDOM COAL!

[Blue_true]

83. Yes, that would have them slobbering at the mouth to hand over those $20s. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[FakeNoose]

15. Is Tubman's picture deliberately off-center?

Not sure if this was planned, or maybe it's done to "fool" the counterfeiters?

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Yes, it definitely looks that way to me

They have included more information on the right than the left, but I'm not sure if this was deliberate or made the off center photo necessary.

[EarnestPutz]

19. I just pulled a five, ten and a twenty out of my wallet to make sure that I was right when....

....I point out that Lincoln, Hamilton and Jackson are all off center on the current notes. A single with Washington still has the portrait centered. That said, I'm surprised that I've got few bucks in my wallet at all, this late in the month.

[FakeNoose]

20. Thanks! I've got a few ones and maybe a fiver

I don't get to see those big bills too often.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. The last update in 2009 for anti-counterfeit measures put all the portraits off center

This was the newer design for the Tubman $20 (updated from the one in the OP tweet that had the old paper currency design) -

[LudwigPastorius]

34. They should definitely make her portrait looked more "etched" instead of photographic.

The picture in the previous design looks a little better in this respect.

Maybe just my OCD, but I think they should try for a unified aesthetic appearance consistent with the other bills.

Regardless, it'll be much better opening my wallet and seeing her face than that old genocidal racist, Jackson.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. I think that was just a draft thing for illustration

I expect if they were ready to go to the presses with it, the final version would might have been altered enough to do that.

There have been multiple versions floating out there -

[IndyOp]

53. I like this image of Harriet Tubman better than the one shown in the OP.

Maybe because it's more like a photo, less stylized? Her shawl needs work in this image - I'd like to see it match one of her skin tones.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. They are supposed to continue working on it again

and hopefully decide and get it done.

The OP one is shown on the old version (pre-2009) of the $20 before it got watermarked, micro-printed, embossed, threaded, and "colorized" a la Ted Turner.

Never thought I'd see U.S. paper currency anything other than green & black but then never thought I'd see newspapers in color either until USA Today showed how effective it could be.

[Bucky]

78. I'm still not a fan of the proposed portraits I've seen

I'd kinda like to see the portrait include her brandishing a pistol and kicking a bounty hunter into the swamp.

But maybe a more historically accurate picture like this would work well on the back.

[lastlib]

31. Yes, it's deliberate

Whether it's done to forestall counterfeiting, I can't say, but Bureau of Engraving doesn't "make mistakes" with currency.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. "Bureau of Engraving doesn't "make mistakes" with currency."

As a kid collecting coins, I was continually on the lookout for a "1955 double-die".

[lastlib]

50. that's the Mint's doing....

not the BEP's.

BTW, my dad had a few of those double die wheatbacks--and probly never knew it!

[BumRushDaShow]

51. We have one of the Mints here in Philly

Used to be able to tour it and get little bags of pennies or slugs.

I chuckle at the old Mint building (now part of the Community College of Philadelphia) that had the old stone engraving on the facade that said "Vnited States Mint". (the "U" issue with stone carving) Used to go to the school across the street from it.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

58. That one is worth some bucks, especially if

it is in very good condition or better.

[KS Toronado]

70. Believe this is photo shopped, true double stamps affect entire coin

not just the lettering on one side. Notice the lower LIBE are above the upper LIBE, but the upper RTY are above the
lower? Very interesting as Arte Johnson would say.














rty

[BumRushDaShow]

74. Pic came from here

https://www.usacoinbook.com/coins.php?id=480&displaytype=want

[KS Toronado]

81. Wow, I'm blown away!

From what I'm seeing, there is a number of these in circulation so they are real. Apparently a tool & die maker
made a mistake and wasn't caught prior to production run. Thanks, I learned something new today.

[BumRushDaShow]

82. Yeah and I think

they were coming out of more than one Mint if I'm not mistaken, although I *think* they focus on specific domination coins at the Mints now (we were doing pennies here). I was actually surprised to see there were coins coming out of here in Philly without the "P". I sort of always assumed no letter/Mint mark meant the (regular metal) coins came out of D.C. but some were coming out of other Mints. Just burned the "P", "D", "S" and nothing in my mind!

There was a huge bust of Ben Franklin that was covered in pennies outside of the Betsy Ross House (it was eventually removed and I think the below may have been when it had been denuded of its pennies ) -

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[sandensea]

45. "It's an Illuminati message !!"

"They're moving America to the left!!!"

[Blue_true]

62. The reason for that may be to have the required spacing at the top of her head.

If her body is centered, her hair wipes out part of the word “Treasury”.

[treestar]

76. Good, another dick move of Dump's

was to cut this off.

[CTyankee]

6. It's beautiful. I saw the movie that was made of her life and struggle. I was so inspired!

[Retrograde]

7. I'd like us to change people on currency every 15-25 years or so

same with the ones depicted in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. There are a lot of great Americans - scientists, artists, humanitarians as well as politicians - who deserve recognition. Let's not stick with the same people forever! Other countries seem to be able to handle this: why couldn't we?

I picked odd numbers years for terms so they don't coincide with presidential or congressional terms.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Maybe they could also tell us how the Fed made $20s worth only $5

inflation adjusted currencies

[Hekate]

29. Statuary Hall statues are chosen by the states, iirc. Sometimes they get changed--by the states nt

[LudwigPastorius]

37. The only thing you'd have to think of would be,...

that by changing frequently, you're opening a door in which the portrait selection would be apt to be politically driven and dependent on who was in power in Congress at the time.

Do we really want to see a Ronald Reagan $50? ...or a Chief Justice Rehnquist $10?

[Retrograde]

49. We've had Jackson on the $20 for quite a while

And if we change frequently, anyone a given segment dislikes will only have a short tenure. The only criterion I'd impose (and this goes for naming things after people as well) is that they have to be dead at least 20 years in order to make sure they have some lasting influence.

[JuJuYoshida]

9. no kidding, hey racists if you don't want that $20 I'll take it off your hands for ya!

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Hopefully MAGAts will pay a premium for Jacksons and discount the $20 Tubmans

arbitrage in motion

[Hela]

18. It is deliberately off-center

Just like other updated currency:



Lots of other features to foil would-be counterfeiters. That's a cool website, btw!

https://www.uscurrency.gov/denominations/

[Karadeniz]

22. Take Old Hickory out behind the wood pile!

[DFW]

23. $20 in the South is no less than $20 elsewhere

And don't forget the legend of the counterfeiters who printed up a bunch of $18 dollar bills by mistake. They thought they could get rid of them one by one in the south, so they drove down to a small town and asked asked the clerk at a small store if he could break an $18 dollar bill. He smiled, and said , "sure." The countefeiters were thrilled until he asked, "How do you want it? In $6 dollar bills or in $9 dollar bills?"

[Klaralven]

24. She'll be the second woman to appear on US currency.

[Orangepeel]

35. Isn't she the third?

I remember dollar coins with both Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea

[Klaralven]

42. They are on coins, not on currency.

[roamer65]

55. First woman on currency was Martha Washington I do believe.

She was on the first series of $1 large sized silver certificates in the late 1800’s.

[oldsoftie]

61. Coins are currency just as bills are.

Anything used as an exchange for goods or services is considered currency

[roamer65]

71. It's a numismatic distinction.

We call the metal “coins”, the paper “currency”.

You are right it’s all currency, but it’s our little idiosyncratic way of distinction in the numismatic world.

[oldsoftie]

79. Ever heard of a "case quarter"?

Street slang when someone wants an actual quarter and not just .25. That was a weird one when i heard it. I dont know why they didnt just ask for a quarter.

[roamer65]

80. No.

In Michigan, I need a quarter means I need the coin itself.

I know of these slangs...

“two bits” in ref to a quarter is from the days when we primarily used Spanish American coin as our money.

A 1/2 real was a “fip” or “picayune”. The NOLA newspaper is named after what it used to cost.

A 1 real was a “bit” or “levy” or “shilling”.

A 2 real was “two bits” or a “quarter”.

Case quarter sounds like a regional reference.

[GulfCoast66]

84. My grandfather used the bit thing...

2 bits=25 cents
4 bits=50 cents
6 bits=75 cents.

I always heard that when we had gold dollars people would carve off the percentage of the coin to pay the amount they needed. Heard that is why there are so few remaining gold coins.

He was born in 1904 in SW Arkansas and the family had been there from before statehood. Still knew story’s of Native American communities.

He had Indian mounds on his farm and none of the kids were allowed to walk on them even when I was a kid. Said it was desecration of their graves. I remember as a boy dove hunting and one of my second cousins too up station on the mound, doubtless to get a better shot. Man, he about an ass beating that day. My uncle owns the land and the policy still holds.

[Biophilic]

25. Amongst all the good news this one makes me smile the most.

It just seems so symbolic of what has changed and is in the midst of being changed. In some ways it seems so minor and in other ways it seems and is so major. A black woman on the 20 dollar bill. Too cool.

[Historic NY]

26. I like this picture better but there is even another...

I believe she should be depicted closer to the time she was in full operations of her activities not when she was in old age.

[link:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/previously-unknown-portrait-abolitionist-harriet-tubman-young-woman-goes-view-180971796/|]

[csziggy]

46. That is a lovely image of Harriet Tubman!

I agree - that would be a better picture to use as the inspiration for the image for the $20 bill.

[reACTIONary]

75. +100 nt

[mcar]

27. Yes!

[Hekate]

28. It's about time, and I look forward to using them!

[Sneederbunk]

30. A small victory in a cashless society.

[PatrickforO]

32. I am really glad to hear this. It is about time, for sure.

Thanks for posting.

[Politicub]

33. Yes!! So happy this is back on track.

[AllyCat]

36. Well, I can still use my stamps to fix the old ones

[BrightKnight]

40. LOL - The mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, magats are going to love that. - nt

[Duppers]

41. YES!

Oh Hell YES!!!

My hubby has said for yrs now that racist asshole's picture should be banished and replaced by Harriet Tubman. She was a hero!

Btw, if you've not watched the movie, please do.


There's a street here in Williamsburg named "Harriet Tubman Drive."

[gldstwmn]

43. Yay! The world is slowly

beginning to make sense again.

[frazzled]

44. Do younger people even use paper currency anymore?

A few years ago my spouse handed the checkout young woman at the Container Store a twenty-dollar bill, and she kept the looking at it and looking at it, as if she didn’t know what it was. He said, “It’s money,” and then she replied, “You don’t see these very often.” Whatevs!

I, for one, can’t wait to get my first Harriet Tubman twenty.

[roamer65]

72. If it's well designed and on polymer, I am looking forward to it.

If it’s the usual paper and poorly designed then it’s spending money.

[George II]

47. Great news! This guy is going to accomplish more in his first week than trump in FOUR years.

[Paladin]

48. Good deal.

Looking forward to the screeching and hollering from all the racists.

[bdamomma]

52. good

Tubman a wonderful woman who helped people to freedom.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

56. Then they should put Lin-Manuel Miranda on the ten-dollar bill

We'd still call it a "Hamilton".

[Drum]

66. ☝️ THIS!

[Walleye]

65. Did the assholes ever give any reason for stopping the plan? Or did they just say,well racism

[anamnua]

68. I'm Irish so I supposed I should be proud of AJ

who was the son of Irish immigrants. I’m not. He was a racist git.

[Nitram]

69. Dump's head will explode. I couldn't be surprised if he stopped using 20-dollar bills and banned

them from Mar-a-Lago and all his other properties.

[Gothmog]

77. Does trump every pay for anything?