SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony were the names most mentioned Monday as women who should be considered for a redesigned $10 bill during a meeting with U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Cady Stanton also had support as Rios took suggestions and answered questions during the hour-long session inside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848. The chapel is now part of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park.
“This is such a historic moment for all of us,” Rios said during the latest in a series of public discussions held since June, when Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced a redesign of the $10 bill that would replace the portrait of Alexander Hamilton with one of a woman.
Rios said the changes to the $10 bill would be just the first in a series of redesigns to better safeguard U.S. bills against counterfeiting. The $10 is the most copied, she said.
The bills would likely enter circulation a year or two after that, Rios said.