$20 bill gets a facelift

cnn.com ^ | 05/13/2003 | cnn

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Clinton is on the 3 Peso Cuban. I also hear the Red chinese are naming a missile after him.

[aruanan]

The front depicts a faded bald eagle as a background with subtle pink and light blue hues.

This pretty much says it all.

[July 4th]

I remember seeing that...it put me on the floor!

[Hatteras]

Nah, I say more color! Give me some rolling amber waves of grain, purple mountains majesty and quaint seaside landscapes with flowers, live animals and fish! Da heck with dead people, I'M FOR LIFE! I WANT TO LIIIIIIIIIVE!!!

Ahem,.... sorry, got a little carried away...

[Conservative til I die]

It's either that or every other $20 bill winds up being counterfeit, or at least having no security checks so that your average cashier can't tell the difference.

I know my paper money, being a collector, unlike some here, and I got a 1963 $20 from the ATM machine a year back, and while I'd ordinarily put it in my collection, it was a little beaten up and had some writing on it so I spent it. The cashier just stood staring at it trying to figure out if it was real or not because those bills have absolutely no security measures on them. No hologram number 20 on the front, no strip running through the left of the bill, no watermark, nothing. She only took it because my girlfriend sternly told her "It's real." That, and the cashier obviously didn't care, since "It's real" was good enough for her. The point is, while they may not be the most aesthetically pleasing things to add, all these watermarks and different colors serve a functional purpose.

[cgk]

It's just a matter of time before there is a move to remove Jackson from the face of the $20 bill by the bullies who don't want us to remember our own history. After all, he was a slave owner, and the 16th President of the "Confederacy of the United States." No matter that he formed the group that later became the Democratic Party.

[Monty22]

I think money designed peaked with the Indian Head penny..

The new stuff has no class.

[presidio9]

Fine. Put Ronnie on it right now.

[CygnusXI]

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Any pics of the BACK of the bill??
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[Monty22]

The back is ok.. Wait, what are those yellow dots?

[FReepaholic]

Didn't we just go through a re-design recently?

How much is THIS ONE gonna cost?

[Hank Rearden]

We've still got the most boring money in the world.

And if all the old designs are still legal tender, why wouldn't counterfeiters just copy those instead? Artificially "aging" new copies of old designs is simple.

[Conservative til I die]

OK, folks, I'm gonna do what I do on every coin/paper money thread on FR, regardless of whether I like or don't like the design of the money is post pics of beautiful money from our nation's past. So here goes, and note, these were all validly circulating bills. Not all were Federal Reserve notes, but they were all considered money, not checks, not bonds, or any other monetary instrument:

1899 $1 Silver Certificate,


$1899 $5 Silver Certificate, "The Chief"


1901 $10 Legal Tender, "Bison Note"


1934 $5000 Federal Reserve Note, specimen (although these notes did circulate)


1934 $10,000 Federal Reserve Note, specimen (although these notes did circulate)


1896 $1 Silver Certificate, "Educational Note"


1928 $1 Silver Certificate, "Funny Back" (Interesting note: Up until 1963, the only $1 bills that circulated were either these notes, the blue seal silver certificates, although with a slightly different design, and the almost identically designed, but much less seen red seal Legal Tenders. The $1 bills that we see now are a historical novelty, as anyone born in the 1940s or early 50's can tell you):

[presidio9]

Actually they could bring back the $500 or the $1000 and put him on one of those. But this will never happen. The PC police have decreed that going forward all new currencies should have mythical women on them to make up for 20million years of repression.

[Conservative til I die]

Not a $3 bill but close enough.

[RonF]

True. He was a special exception passed by Congress in some fashion, probably due to the fact that he was killed in office, something that Reagan almost fell victim to, but avoided.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Not joking... it was demonstrated (posted) on Free Republic right after 9-11.