The latter-day Alexander Hamilton wants his namesake to get some currency cred.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the impresario behind the hip-hop Broadway smash “Hamilton,” said he met with Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew this week and was assured a redesigned $10 bill won’t leave fans of the founding father feeling devalued.
Lew said last year that he wanted to add a woman’s image to the $10 note, which currently features Hamilton’s likeness.
A Treasury spokeswoman told The New York Times on Wednesday that Lew “thanked Miranda for the ingenious way in which he has been able to tell Hamilton’s story and ignite a renewed interest in one of our nation’s founding father.”
I talked to @USTreasury about this on Monday. Sec. Lew told me "you're going to be very happy." #wegetthejobdone https://t.co/ZkLFuSmz8M
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 16, 2016
“Secretary Lew also reiterated his commitment to continue to honor Alexander Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill,” the spokeswoman added.
The feds haven’t released any intel on how Hamilton, the first treasury secretary in American history, might be commemorated on cash after the planned revamp. The new design is expected to roll out in 2020 to mark, in part, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote. The success of “Hamilton” has endeared the real-life figure to musical fans and theatergoers who say they wouldn’t otherwise know anything about him. Twitter users said they’re torn between a revamped bill and keeping Hamilton’s portrait on the $10 note, and others want the Treasury to go back to its original plan to take President Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill instead. This story originally appeared on NBCNews.com
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