WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says he’s received more than a million responses to his request for comments on how U.S. currency should be redesigned and recommendations for what woman should become the first female on U.S. paper money in more than a century.
Lew said it has been a “remarkable outpouring” of everything from tweets and retweets to handwritten letters.
Lew set off a furor in June by announcing a redesign of the $10 bill that would replace the portrait of Alexander Hamilton with a woman.
Lew said a decision is still expected “in the very near future.”
While a woman’s portrait will be placed on the $10 bill, Lew said Hamilton will still be honored in some way.
He said the redesign of the $10 bill will be just the first in a series of redesigns of the currency to make the U.S. bills safer against the newest forms of counterfeiting.
The aim is to make an announcement of what woman will go on the $10 billion by this fall with the total redesign completed by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
- Posted July 30, 2015
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