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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis stamp lets you put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill in an act of 'civil disobedience'
A "Harriet Tubman Stamp" aims to allow Americans to put Tubman's face on $20 bills, despite the Trump administration's announcement this week that the official bill's redesign will be delayed.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said during a congressional hearing Wednesday that a redesign of the $20 bill to feature Tubman an abolitionist hero would not be ready in time for a planned 2020 release. Mnuchin cited "counterfeiting issues" as a reason for a delay he projected to last eight years.
The news has brought new attention to a previously released product: An ink stamp that can replace Andrew Jackson's face on a $20 bill with Tubman's likeness. The single-color stamp is designed to place an outline of Tubman's face over the former president's.
In promoting the stamps on social media, the product's Instagram account referred to using the stamp as an act of "civil disobedience."
The product has attracted enough attention that its Etsy listing was sold out as of Friday morning. For those who live in New York City, the product's site says there are two businesses that serve as "stamping stations" in the city.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/harriet-tubman-20-bill-stamp-puts-tubman-face-twenty/1219952001/
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)He showed how to put it over Jackson's face. I think his costs $40 (I could be wrong) and is supposed to look 3D but on the TV it didn't.
Rhiannon12866
(205,163 posts)But I'm sure he'll be making more.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,163 posts)I also didn't think he hit the face squarely on, but I'm sure he was a little nervous appearing on national TV.
The stamp itself is made on a 3-D printer. The image is makes is 2-D.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)struggle4progress
(118,275 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)The wheres George people stamp $1 bills all the time to get people to enter them in a tracking database.
They dont get prosecuted.
Andrew Jackson utterly hated central banks. His feud with Nicholas Biddle and the Bank of the United States is legendary. Jackson would be horrified to see his picture on a central banks banknote.