Redo Your nations currency

0.01 - History I: Battle scene from Trajan's Column/Pietroasele treasure
0.05 - History II: Basarab I/Battle of Posada from the Chronicon Pictum
0.1 - History III: Alexander John Cuza/Revolutionary Romania
0.5 - History IV: Iuliu Maniu/Romanian Revolutionary flag
1 (coin) - Philosophy: Mircea Eliade/Glycon
1 (banknote) - Literature: Mihai Eminescu and Ion Creanga/cover of Eminescu's Poems
5 - Visual arts: Constantin Brancusi/Mademoiselle Pogany
10 - Science and technology: Henri Coanda/Coanda-1910
50 - Wallachia: Vlad the Impaler/coat of arms of Wallachia and the Chindia Tower
100 - Moldavia: Stephen the Great/coat of arms of Moldavia and the Putna Monastery
200 - Transylvania: John Hunyadi/coat of arms of Transylvania and the Hunyad Castle
500 - National unity: Michael the Brave/his seal and equestrian statue

There's a theme going on there.
 
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Circa 2076 AD

$1 - Squanto and William Penn. Mayflower.

I recall a discussion once on an Indian board about who we'd like to see on currency.
Sitting Bull
Anna Mae Aquash -Lakota activist
Victorio-Apache wartime leader
Manuelito-Navajo leader during the Long Walk
John Ross-Cherokee, their George Washington, leader during the Trail of Tears and the Civil War
Sara Winnemucca-Paiute professor and activist
Eky Parker- Seneca officer during the Civil War, head of the Indian Bureau under US Grant
Henry Berry Lowry- Lumbee guerilla leader during the Civil War
John Harrington- Chickasaw astronaut
Quanah Parker- Comanche, founder of Native American Church

Pro Confederate types, take note. Three of these Indian leaders fought against the Confederacy.
 
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I recall a discussion once on an Indian board about who we'd like to see on currency.
Sitting Bull
Anna Mae Aquash -Lakota activist
Victorio-Apache wartime leader
Manuelito-Navajo leader during the Long Walk
John Ross-Cherokee, their George Washington, leader during the Trail of Tears and the Civil War
Sara Winnemucca-Paiute professor and activist
Eky Parker- Seneca officer during the Civil War, head of the Indian Bureau under US Grant
Henry Berry Lowry- Lumbee guerilla leader during the Civil War
John Harrington- Chickasaw astronaut
Quanah Parker- Comanche, founder of Native American Church

Pro Confederate types, take note. Three of these Indian leaders fought against the Confederacy.


But not Squanto? :(
 
Sitting Bull
Anna Mae Aquash -Lakota activist
Victorio-Apache wartime leader
Manuelito-Navajo leader during the Long Walk
John Ross-Cherokee, their George Washington, leader during the Trail of Tears and the Civil War
Sara Winnemucca-Paiute professor and activist
Eky Parker- Seneca officer during the Civil War, head of the Indian Bureau under US Grant
Henry Berry Lowry- Lumbee guerilla leader during the Civil War
John Harrington- Chickasaw astronaut
Quanah Parker- Comanche, founder of Native American Church

What about Sequoyah, Tecumseh and Geronimo?
 
It truly amazed me the first time I saw Darwin on British money.

Any politician suggesting that in the US could never get elected. He'd probably get plenty of death threats, seriously.

I was amazed by the strength of the Bible belt. Anyone suggesting that evolution shouldn't be taught in British schools would probably be accused of living in the Middle ages. I mean creationism? We can safely say that the evidence that that's the real truth is lacking in a way that evidence for the Big Bang and evolution isn't. In my opinion, the Bible is a moral code, not the literal history of the universe. In fact, it could be argued that imposing the idea that evolution is inherantly false goes against the principles of American free speach.
 
I forgot to include Tecumseh.

Squanto and Sequoyah both tend to be far more admired by outsiders than by people within their tribes. Squanto for being a "good Indian" who helped whites, Sequoyah for helping Cherokee to become "more white" through a written language.

Though neither man is responsible for how they've been written about, these are the reasons they're well known. Certainly a more reasonable view of Squanto is the man's story is of a survivor doing his best under very trying circumstances, while Sequoyah's achievement is certainly unique.

Geronimo was a relatively minor leader who is also romanticized by outsiders who use him as an example of a fatalistic Indian warrior. The Scouts who fought against him are far more admired by Apaches. Victorio was far more the leader of the nation.
 
Coins:

5 cent
10 cent
20 cent
50 cent
99 cent (joke :p)
$1
$2

Notes:

$5:
$10:
$20:
$50:
$100:
$200:
$500:
$1000:
 
Wasn't there a federal appeals court ruling a few years back that US Federal Reserve Notes violated the Americans with Disabilities Act since they were all the same size and color? If so, there's been a loud silence since then.......`
 
Psh... it's alternate history!

$1- John Adams/Signing of the Declaration of Independence
$5-Jefferson Davis/Charleston Treaty which brough S.C. back into the Union in 1861.
$10-Alexander Hamilton/White House
$20- Andrew Jackson/Battle of New Orleans
$50-Theodore Roosevelt/Founding Fathers & Liberty Bell
$100- Benedict Arnold/Battle of Saratoga
 
DBWI POST


Alternate designs for The Amero.


5 cent: An Eagle (Pride). Prime Minister Obama.

10 cent: Polar Bear (Nature). Prime Minister Gore.

20 cent: An Igloo, Tepee and Aztec Pryamid (Culture). Prime Minister Palin.

50 cent: A Filed of Grain (Agriculture). Secretary Harper.

a1: Scale (Justice). Supreme Justice McLachlin

a2: Scroll (Education). Speaker of the House Schwarzenegger.


Notes:

a5: Apollo 11 Landing. James "Jim" Lovell Jr.

a10: 16th Century Ships. Hernando Courtez, Christopher Columbus and Lief Erickson.

a20: Map of The North American Union. An Inuit, Great Plains American and Aztec.

a50: Raising The Flag at Ground Zero. Soldiers.

a100: Justice Hall (OTL: Mexican Supreme Court). Supreme Justice Sotomayor.

a200: Executive Mansion (OTL: White House). Prime Minister Fox.

a500: Parliament House (OTL: Canadian Parliament Building). Speaker Of the House Trudeau.

a1000: Smaller flags of The USA, CSA (right) Mexico and Canada (Left) with a larger flag of the North American Union flying between them. George Washington, Jefferson Davis (right), John Macdonald and Miguel Hidalgo (left) looking up with pride at Prime Minister (and Founder of the NAU) John F. Kennedy.
 
Specie:
$0.01 -- Ben Franklin, facing forward/Independence Hall
$0.05 -- keep Thomas Jefferson, keep him facing forward/Jefferson Memorial
$0.10 -- Alexander Hamilton, facing forward/Statue of Liberty
$0.25 -- keep George Washington, have him face forward/bring the Eagle back
$0.50 -- James Madison, facing forward/U. S. Constitution
$1.00 -- John Marshall, facing forward/Supreme Court

Notes:
$1.00 -- Franklin Roosevelt/keep the Great Seal
$2.00 -- Teddy Roosevelt/Mount Rushmore
$5.00 -- Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights March in Alabama
$10.00 -- Ronald Reagan/Victims of Communism Memorial
$20.00 -- John F. Kennedy/Saturn V Rocket
$50.00 -- Abe Lincoln/Lincoln Memorial
$100.00 -- Ely S. Parker/Native American symbolism
$500.00 -- Jeanette Rankin/Congress building
 
Wouldn't HM The King or Queen of Canada have to be on one of the coins? Or has the House of Windsor been deposed in Canada by this point in the TL?

Canadian Republicanism isn't a far-off idea, it's just not clear from your post whether that has happened yet.


Well with Canada's joining of The North American Union, they deposed of the Monarchy in favor of joining the new found Republic.
 
Well, if I'm really in charge of redesigning the US money system, first I demonetize the $2 bill and SBA dollar coin. Second, I give a year's grace period before demonetizing the penny and 50c coin. It might be out of my area of jurisdiction, but I'll see if I can have vending machines all retrofitted to take the 'gold' dollar coin. As for designs...

On coins, I think I'll hark back to the hallowed days of putting animals on coins:

nickel: buffalo
Dime: wolf
Quarter: grizzly
Dollar: (once the Presidential series is done) bald eagle.

on bills:
again, after a year's grace period, reduce the number of one dollar bills printed, allowing time for an increased number of dollar coins to be minted. As for designs... keep all the current ones, but maybe put some different colors on them to better tell them apart... nothing too 'Euro'-ish, mostly some different color edging or flash along with the standard green...
 
On coins, I think I'll hark back to the hallowed days of putting animals on coins:
You beat me to it!:p

coins Obverse - animal/reverse - value
1¢ rattlesnake
5¢ buffalo
10¢ hummingbird
25¢ roadrunner
50¢ mountain lion
$1 eagle, soaring
$2 eagle, perched

currency
$5 George Washington/Washington Crossing the Delaware
$10 Martin Luther King/The March on Washington
$20 Sitting Bull/The "Great Treaty" wampum belt.
$50 Benjamin Franklin/Independence hall
$100 Thomas Jefferson/Signing the declaration of Independence
 
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