I am looking for a final solution to the faces-on-money problem. Maybe one of these?:

1. Mint a large hexagonal coin with all the presidents on it. Put half on the front and half on the back sitting around last supper style. The coin needs to be about half-meter in diameter so that you could tell who is who. Making it a hexagon would keep it from rolling around crushing people.

2. Print a new dollar bill about 25 feet long with all of the presidents on it. It could be in the form of a scroll.

3. Print rolls of currency like toilet paper so you could tear off the money as you need it. The first off the roll would be George Washington and so on down the line until you find George Bush on the cardboard tube.

4. Put ordinary people on coins and currency. You could pay the taxi driver with a bill that has his mug shot on it. I would recommend my barber, or a guy I see at the drug store sometimes. How about a series of coins with librarians, Wal-Mart greeters, policemen, or waitresses on them?

5. Don't ever put people on money again. Use cute baby animals instead.

6. I think if we must put people on coins, they should be facing left or right depending upon how conservative or liberal they are. Middle-of-the-roaders could be looking straight at you with both eyes showing. The tails side could show the back of their head.

7. How about a composite president? We could use Jimmy Carter's grin, George Washington's hair-do, Lincoln's beard, Teddy Roosevelt's or Harry Truman's glasses, Jackson's eyes, George W. Bush's ears, Grant's nose. etc.

8. We have stamps without a value printed on them, so why not do the same with coins? Then the value could rise or fall according to how the polls rate the guy who's face appears on it.
Howard