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    No African-American has been portrayed on American currency. Yet. There has been a plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, it was voted on back in 2015, in a plan to add a woman to the twenty-dollar bill. Three candidates were voted on, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman.  Harriet Tubman was selected to replace Andrew Jackson's portrait on the currency. 

     

    The release of the Harriet Tubman twenty-dollar bill was scheduled to be in this year, 2020. Because of sentiments of the current Administration, and comments objecting to the change, the plans for release of the Harriet Tubman twenty-dollar bill has been pushed back to 2028 to avoid any chance that it might be cancelled.  It is possible the bill may be released sooner, but also possible it may not be released.  But to date, there has been no African-American on paper currency in the U.S. 

     

    There have been no real-person African-Americans on any U.S. coins. There was one coin issued however, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the US Mint, an American Liberty Anniversary $100 Liberty Gold Coin was minted in 2017 in a limited edition with the image of an African-American woman. It was not a coin for circulation, but for collecting. 

     

    Additional notes:

     

    • There is only one currency that held the image of a woman, Martha Washington, on a $1 Silver Certificate with the initial issue date of 1886.
    • There is only one currency that held the image of a First Nations person, Sioux Chief Running Antelope of the Punkapa, one of the Lakota tribes, on the $5 Silver Certificate with the initial issue date of 1899. 
    • There are two $1 coins that held the portrait images of women - Susan B. Anthony, social reformer, minted 1979-1981 and again in 1999; and Sacajawea, explorer, minted several times since the first in 2000–2001; 2009-2011; 2020 for circulation. 
    • Only women have adorned the $1 coin - which had a number of issues and versions of Lady Liberty, who is not a real life woman

     

    You can see all the faces that have appeared on American currency on the Wikipedia page -      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_United_States_banknotes

     

    And further sources for information on the $20 bill, and Harriet Tubman

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_twenty-dollar_bill

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-in-2020.html

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/harriet-tubman-20-mnuchin-trnd/index.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html

     

     And thi last link includes information at the end, about the $100 Gold Coin.

    https://www.usmoneyreserve.com/blog/lady-liberty-on-coins/

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