If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. And there is no sense of symmetry. Lincoln, Hamilton, and Jackson deserve better. Because, in the final analysis, that's all it's worth.
Fiat money is money by government decree.
That it is worth anything is only because the government says it is worth something. We could just as easily be using monopoly money and arcade tokens. God has my infinite trust, but I've learned the hard way not to trust the government completely. Neither, it seems, do most people. The Susan B. Anthony dollar coins stacked up in the Treasury's vaults and the government could only dispose of them by giving them as change in postal machines.