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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030909/us_nm/economy_bills_dc_2

quote:
New $20 Bills to Become Available in October

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The revamped $20 bill, along with its faint tinge of peach color in the background, will make its way into bank vaults and consumers' pockets in early October, according to the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

News to me! I'm not sure if I like the idea or not.

AJ

Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :

Oh come on - it's so much fun to change the way our bills look every few years....

Simpsons moment: "Our money looks so gay!"

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Okay, I can understand the need to introduce color. But did they have to introduce UGLY, random color? It looks like they just acid-washed a few twenties.

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

They probably did.

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I'm always jealous of the money in other countries because most of it's so much prettier than ours...colored and holography. Someone in Estonia looked at me strange when I told her that all of our bills are the same size and color. She said "How in the heck do you tell them apart in your wallet?"

Yeah. That is a pain now that I think of it!!

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Is it just me, or does Andy Jackson have a bit of the whole "bobble head" thing going on there?

I'm not kidding--it's like an orange on a toothpick!

Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :

I've heard that their next plans, if the economy keeps going south, isn't just designer colors, but also to make them quilted and more absorbant...

Seriously, though, PEACH???? Okay, that's it, no more letting the guys from Queer Eye For The Straight Guy into the Treasury Dept. Design Room!

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Well, I don't like change, so, big surprise, I'm not thrilled. The thing I always disliked about other counrties money was that it looked like Monopoly money. I hope they don't do that to ours.

Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :

yeah, i like our money. It supposed to be green... grr...

Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :

Hmmm...after awhile, the foreign money grows on you. I've been in Germany for some six months now, and while I'm still annoyed at how the Euro doesn't properly fit into an American-sized wallet, I must admit that I'll be missing the rainbow-hued bills when I get back home. Green just seems so...boring. AND the Euros have tasteful architecture from around Europe on them, rather than unflattering portraits of brilliant dead guys.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

;_; Green's not boring... I protest this peach toned blasphemy!

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Larry Niven once suggested in an essay that currency should be coins made of alloys of depleted nuclear material. This would: provide a way to get rid of nuclear waste; encourage circulation of currency, which helps economies; punish hoarders with meltdowns, or even explosions, if they hoard too much. [Evil Laugh]

[ September 10, 2003, 02:19 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :

What would really make American money interesting is putting pictures of civil rights leaders -- even foreign ones like Gandhi, while I'm dreaming -- on the covers rather than, to be honest, unimpressive presidents. Who else, beyond Franklin, has made a bill and not been president?

I can see them making an FDR bill, come to think on it. But nobody else in the past century has really seemed worthy -- maybe Wilson, but I'm not exactly breathtaken by his work.

Or they can take the random route. Where's my $50 Shaquille O'Neal bill, dammit?

Posted by Dreamwalker (Member # 4189) on :

So...how do YOU tell them apart? [Dont Know]

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Our bills have numbers. Surely all foreigners aren't innumerate?

Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :

Ummm, Lalo, how about Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill?

And unimpressive presidents? I think Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Jackson were some pretty interesting folks.

You might also want to check whose faces are on the upper end denominations.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

Have any women made paper money? Or just coins. Isn't there Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea on coins. I think lady liberty is on one too but I don't know if she counts.

AJ

Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :

I understand that if they keep changing the money it makes counterfitters have to figure out how to make the new bills, but I have three big problems with this idea.

1) They also make it harder for the public to readily recognize the new bills making poorly done fakes easier to pass.

2) the old bills are still good, so if a counterfitter is good at making the old bills why would they even try to make the new one.

3) PEACH! I mean they chose peach, orange is the only color that is also a food that should be allowed on our money. And I'd rather spend a green back then a green blue and peach back.

Posted by Celtic Flame (Member # 5556) on :

Give me rainbow stripped 20 dollar bills! [Roll Eyes]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

I have been contemplating counterfeiting dollars with a combination of orange and lime sherbert. Then throwing a counterfeit party the day they are launched.

AJ

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

It's true - it looks terrible!

Where do I get my hands on some?