The history of U.S. currency and the many distinguished individuals that have been featured on them is a long and winding road that perhaps only a numismatist (a person who studies or collects currency) would be willing to travel down.
The United States dollar was created as the official U.S. currency in April 1792. With the country ever-evolving, the general public has taken interest on the people they'd like to see represented on their money. New designs are being considered for U.S. coins and paper bills to represent a wider breadth of historical symbols and figures that have helped define America.
While Harriet Tubman's portrait is set to be the new face of the $20 bill (a decision that won't happen until 2028), other possible currency changes include gold and silver coins of the American bald eagle as well as images of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Marian Anderson's 1939 opera concert and a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt on the reverse side of the new $5 bill. The Treasury also announced suffragists Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony are expected to be featured on the reverse side of the $10 bill.
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