As queer as a three dollar bill

Have you realized there is only one non-president on currently minted money in the United States? I thought the Founding Fathers wanted to prevent monopolies.

Monopoly has the right idea: don't even both with coins.

I don't know where the origins of president's on currency started. Whoever it was had a great idea. I think it's time to change things up a bit though. Benjamin Franklin needs somebody to talk to in People-who-are-on-United-States-money-and-weren't-a-president Heaven.

Susan B. Anthony did it. Not only was she not a president but she was a woman as well. Hot damn. A woman on money. We can't seem to get one in the White House but we can slap a bust of one on a dollar coin that we only mint for a couple years.

You fought for women's suffrage?
I think that merits a spot on the dollar coin.

Salmon P. Chase also did it. If you're like me and have NO idea who Salmon P. Chase was look him up. Somehow he made it on the $10,000 bill. First of all, who has a $10,000 bill? Second of all, why would you want to carry around a $10,000 bill.

Unfortunately, the $10,000 bill, along with the $500 (William McKinley), $1,000 (Grover Cleveland), $5,000 (James Madison) and $100,000 (Woodrow Wilson) bills were only minted from 1929-45 and have slowly been taken out of circulation by the government since 1969.

The U.S. Treasury never got as creative with their coins. All the coins that are in circulation today have a president's bust on them, many of which also adorn a paper bill. We have 40 or so to choose from, can't we find enough to make each coin and bill unique?

The whole state quarters thing was a big deal in the 2000s. It seemed like everybody was a collector at some point or another. Some of the states made me mad though. The images and text they picked for some states were just silly. My own great state of Michigan is perhaps the worst of the 50.

Ignoring the yin and yang design that's not really on the coin,

isn't there anything else they could have put on here.

A Model T maybe? The Mackinac Bridge?

It looks like a jumbled up mess of organs with a mitten in the middle.

You have to give them some credit though, they have been improving the beauty of our coins and bills. Every bill except the $1 and $2 have had some kind of color added in the past decade.

Apparently Alexander Hamilton's good side was his left.

They should start adding some new people though. Some "Very Important People" to the history of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. anybody? Henry Ford? Patrick Henry? I don't want to name too many serious people.

Let's have fun. Who do you want to see on the $3 bill?