The New $50

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Here's the new $50, I think I like this one better then the $20.

 

http://www.startrekfans.net/bill_web_50.swf

[RikerChick 5]

I like it, it looks cool.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

To see a larger version click the link below:

 

http://www.startrekfans.net/50.cfm

 

These flash animations are from http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/

[BakulaBabe 2]

Yeah, the new $50 is WAY better looking than the new $20! Of course, the only time I'll ever se one is in a cash register. :P

[Odie 0]

The $50 looks for better than the $20.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

I was playing with the thought of President Reagan being on the $10 Bill (which has been introduced in congress as a proposal) and I wanted to see what it might look like.

 

Since the new $10 bill hasn't been released yet I just took the $50 and put President Reagan on that one.

[RikerChick 5]

I was playing with the thought of President Reagan being on the $10 Bill (which has been introduced in congress as a proposal) and I wanted to see what it might look like.

 

Since the new $10 bill hasn't been released yet I just took the $50 and put President Reagan on that one.

Good job, that looks cool. :P

[Shrek 0]

The new $50 looks cool!

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

I have a question. why do they tell the new features to the public? now the forgers can now know what to copy.

 

BTW I love it :P

[VaBeachGuy 12]

I have a question. why do they tell the new features to the public? now the forgers can now know what to copy.

 

BTW I love it :P

Knowing what to copy and being able to are 2 different things. Besides, the public has to know that what they are seeing in the money they may be holding is genuine. If someone gave you a purple $5 bill would you trust that it is real?

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

I have a question. why do they tell the new features to the public? now the forgers can now know what to copy.

 

BTW I love it :P

Knowing what to copy and being able to are 2 different things. Besides, the public has to know that what they are seeing in the money they may be holding is genuine. If someone gave you a purple $5 bill would you trust that it is real?

Ok, thanks

 

I get it now

[VaBeachGuy 12]

I have a question. why do they tell the new features to the public? now the forgers can now know what to copy.

 

BTW I love it :P

Knowing what to copy and being able to are 2 different things. Besides, the public has to know that what they are seeing in the money they may be holding is genuine. If someone gave you a purple $5 bill would you trust that it is real?

Ok, thanks

 

I get it now

Plus they don't tell all of the little changes that are made. They only tell us the big noticeable ones.

[DixonHill1989 0]

Very cool $50 bill VBG.

[Beam me up 0]

VABeachGuy, do you know the number of that proposal?

[Odo 0]

Like Them Both

[VaBeachGuy 12]

VABeachGuy, do you know the number of that proposal?

No I don't, but remind me when I get back from Washington and I'll search it out for you.

[Jim Phaserman 0]

I like the new 50. Don't see many of them, but I like it.

[A l t e r E g o 9]

That is the coolest of all the new money designs I've seen yet!

[VaBeachGuy 12]

VABeachGuy, do you know the number of that proposal?

No I don't, but remind me when I get back from Washington and I'll search it out for you.

Here is a new article on Yahoo that is about this topic:

 

WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s enthusiastic supporters say the late president deserves a place on the nation's currency, even if it means a lesser or disappearing role for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alexander Hamilton or Andrew Jackson.

 

 

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Slideshow: Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

 

 

 

 

Getting their hero's face on the dime may be easier than other goals, such as seeing it etched on Mount Rushmore, but that idea still will be resisted by Democrats defending their own icon, FDR.

 

 

Honoring the late president with new coins or paper money is only one of several ideas being advanced by Reagan admirers: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has suggested legislation to rename the Pentagon (news - web sites) the Ronald Reagan National Defense Building.

 

 

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., a speechwriter in the Reagan White House, plans to introduce a bill to put Reagan on the $20 bill, replacing another venerable Democrat, Andrew Jackson.

 

 

That would join a previous proposal, by Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., to provide for dimes bearing the likeness of Reagan.

 

 

The office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would pursue an idea he has pushed for several years, placing Reagan on the $10 bill now bearing the visage of Hamilton, the first Treasury secretary.

 

 

Chris Butler of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, which has the goal of seeing a Reagan commemoration in every American county, said its top legislative priority is the $10 bill. He noted that money can be changed administratively without congressional action, and suggested that Reagan dimes could join, rather than replace, FDR dimes.

 

 

The Treasury secretary can change the design of coins, usually after consulting Congress, but spokeswoman Anne Womack Kolton said, "We believe it is premature at this point to discuss any possible changes to the currency."

 

 

Replacing FDR would not happen without a battle. Last November, on the same day Souder introduced his Reagan dime bill "in honor of his work in restoring American greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the world," Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., proposed a resolution affirming support of the FDR dime. More than half the House Democrats joined him as co-sponsors.

 

 

Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Tuesday a decision on a $10 Reagan note should be left to historians, adding that "the best tribute we could pay to him" would be fully funding research into Alzheimer's, the disease that afflicted Reagan the last decade of his life.

 

 

Reagan's wife Nancy has also voiced opposition to the new dime. Souder last December praised the "humble nature" of Mrs. Reagan's comments but said he would continue to promote his bill, which has the support of GOP leaders, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

 

 

Butler, whose group is a wing of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, pointed out that coins bearing the likeness of FDR, John F. Kennedy and Lincoln all appeared within a year of their deaths. The Roosevelt dime came out in 1946, in part commemorating his support for the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio.

 

 

Besides paper and metal, Reagan advocates have long pushed to see their champion honored more widely in stone. Butler said there are now some 54 highways, schools, post offices and other memorials to Reagan around the country, but that still pales in comparison with the more than 600 for Kennedy and more than 800 for Martin Luther King.

 

 

Up to now, the biggest victories have been the renaming of Washington's National Airport after the 40th president and the opening in Washington of the Ronald Reagan Building, the second largest government office building after the Pentagon. Last year the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was commissioned.

 

 

Still in the works is the idea of a monument to Reagan on the National Mall in Washington, deterred by a law — signed by Reagan — that bars new monuments until a person has been dead 25 years.

 

 

Similarly, it is the U.S. Postal Service's practice to honor a president on the first anniversary of his death. There's a 10-year waiting period before other deceased personages can get a stamp.

 

 

Then there is Mount Rushmore.

 

 

 

 

 

It will take a long time to study the geophysical and artistic feasibility of that project, Butler said. But "is he great enough to be on Mount Rushmore? Yes."

[hangon 3]

I am not from the states but i would like to see R.R on a bank note i think i would be the least they could do to honour a great man IMO :P

[Lady Luthien 0]

that looks really nice!although we dont have the dollar here,i would love to use that sometime

[fenriz275 0]

I'm still getting used to having colors other than green and black on my money. I'd prefer that they'd leave the faces on the money as they are. They should introduce a new denomination if they want to slap Reagan's face on one, where's the love for U.S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton, let's not just put 'em out to pasture. They still spend real good, too good in my case.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Who was Alexander Hamilton that he deserves "love" now?