A woman will be featured on the new version of the $10 bill, the Treasury Department is set to formally announce on Thursday. “America’s currency is a way for our nation to make a statement about who we are and what we stand for. Our paper bills — and the images of great American leaders and symbols they depict—have long been a way for us to honor our past and express our values,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a statement. “We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I’m proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman.” The new bill will be released in 2020, a century after the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.

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