Rachel Maddow last night gave an interesting history lesson about the changes to the front and back of the double sawbuck, over the years, jokingly speculating that Andrew Jackson, who loathed and dreaded paper money (it is, in fact, unconstitutional) and the national bank (itself most fairly regarded as unconstitutional) with all his heart, was put on the bill in 1928 under the Federal Reserve System as an inside joke at his expense.
It's true, isn't it, that these changes will give us a currency that more closely looks like America?
I hope the new bills are much more colorful than our usual, really boring green.
The currencies of other countries are so often much more an aesthetic pleasure than ours.
Too bad.
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