[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.

[Timesink]

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

That's intentional. It's a psychological thing to keep the greenback accepted as the de facto "standard currency" in the rest of the world. Dull = staid = dependable = solid = the US dollar. You're never going to see garish, blinding, color-cause-it's-pretty, ultra-modern US currency that looks like this:

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