'The decision to put Harriet Tubman on the new $20 was driven by thousands of responses we received from Americans young and old. Lew wrote in announcing the plans in 2016: The Department of Treasury announced in 2016 it was planning to bump Jackson to the back of the $20 bill and place the face of Harriet Tubman, the late African American activist and formerly enslaved woman, on the front of the currency in 2020 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which acknowledged and guaranteed the right of women to vote. The federal agency responsible for printing the seven denominations, however, was planning to reintroduce a woman to a U.S. The few that still exist are legal to spend but are so rare that they are worth more than their face value to collectors. The Treasury stopped printing the larger notes in 1945, but most continued to circulate until 1969 when the Federal Reserve began destroying those that were received by banks. The faces on larger denominations that are out of circulation-the $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, and $100,000 bills-are also those of men who served as president and Treasury secretary. bill in circulation include five American presidents and two founding fathers.
