Former US president Alexander Hamilton, whose face has been on the US$10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman.
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was to announce officially yesterday that a redesign of the US$10 banknote would feature the first woman on the nation’s paper money in more than a century.
The plan is to decide which woman sometime this summer.
The banknote would have new security features to make it harder to counterfeit and is to be unveiled in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
The date it would enter circulation is to be announced later.
Lew is asking the public for suggestions on who should be chosen for the bill, as well as what symbols of democracy it should feature.
Ideas can be submitted by visiting thenew10.treasury.gov Web site.
Various groups have been campaigning to get a woman honored on the nation’s paper currency, which has been an all-male domain for more than a century.
The most recent woman featured on US paper money was Martha Washington, who was on a US$1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896.
The only other woman ever featured on US paper money was Pocahontas, from 1865 to 1869.
Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea are on US$1 coins.
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who is sponsoring legislation to put a woman on the US$20 bill, praised Lew for moving forward with a decision to use the US$10 bill, which is the next denomination of currency scheduled to be redesigned.
“While it may not be the US$20 bill, make no mistake, this is a historic announcement,” Shaheen said in a statement. “Young girls across this country will soon be able to see an inspiring woman on the US$10 bill.”
A grassroots group, Women on 20s, had been pushing to get a woman’s portrait on the US$20, which currently features Andrew Jackson.
They conducted an online poll that gathered more than 600,000 votes.
Harriett Tubman, an African-American abolitionist, was the top choice in that poll.
Lew said that Hamilton, the nation’s first Treasury secretary, would still be honored in some way.
One possibility being considered would keep Hamilton’s portrait on some of the redesigned US$10 bills, he said.
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