Writers, musicians, poets etc. instead of politicians on US notes

Stalker

Banned
So, what are your suggestions on persons to be placed on US banknotes instead of politicians? Say, from 1 to 1000?
What should be the system to be used for rating them?
As for me, I would have placed that man on one dollar bill::rolleyes:
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So, what are your suggestions on persons to be placed on US banknotes instead of politicians? Say, from 1 to 1000?
What should be the system to be used for rating them?
As for me, I would have placed that man on one dollar bill::rolleyes:
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NOOOOO
HAS to be the $5 bill - the (Huck) Fin!
 
I think for this to really work, and taking an example from similar European bills, there would several bills introduced over a decade or so. The portraits won't be static, but probably change ever two years.

For musicians:

Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin, Charles Ives, Francis Scott Key

For writers:

Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Steinbeck, Robert Heinlein, L. Frank Baum, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Henry James,
 
Should have a few scientiest and inventors there:

Wright Brothers

Sam Colt or John Moses Browning (d'uh gun inventors! How much more American can you get? :p)

Dr. Jonas Salk

Robert Fulton

Samuel F.B. Morse
 

Stalker

Banned
For musicians:

Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin, Charles Ives, Francis Scott Key
Neither Leonard Bernstein, nor George Gershwin?

For writers:

Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Steinbeck, Robert Heinlein, L. Frank Baum, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Henry James,
Robert Anson Heinlein in and Samuel Leghorn Clemens out? With all my great respect to Heinlein I disagree.;)
BTW, anyone, position the artists or inventors you choose by bills. I wonder who you'd put on 1 dollar bill, and who you'd put on 100-dollars bill?:D

Among inventors, I'd suggest Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla (being Serb he was an American as well).
 

Stalker

Banned
Depends upon the period. Given the modern design of the note it belongs to the period yet to be written by Turtledove. No later than mid 80s.
The timeline 191 AFAIR stops at 1945? Who knows what inflation rates in CSA of 80s and how many reforms the currency has undergone.
If it were early 20s, even five 0s would not help, almost the same is with late 40s in timeline 191. Any other period, who knows?
 
Stalker, how do you make those bills with the alternate faces on them? What program do you use? And where did you get the base image for that fictional Confederate note?
 
Since I am a writer, a musician, and something of a poet, I would have to go with myself. And naturally I'd put my own ugly mug on the $100 bill. Humble be damned!

It's all about the metalstars, baby! :D:p

BTW Ben Franklin was not a politician and he still wound up on our money.
 
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