While surfing the net I came across this picture of a supposed design for a new $1000 bill. It appears to be part of the website for a college professor or something. I only came across it by accident and I’ve never studied it too closely.
The last time the $1000 bill was actually printed was 1969. Some do still remain incirculation of course.
I’ve actually always wondered whether or not they would ever have to bring the larger denominations back, what with inflation and all.
Here, you can look at it again. It looks very nice. As you can see, along with a new portrait of Grover Cleveland, it has a picture of the twin towers on the back. But is it for real?
Slight hijack: Are there any plans to redesign the one dollar bill to conform with the others? Personally, I think they should have just discontinued the paper dollar in favor of the Sakajawea coin, but it looks like they just did a repeat of the Susan B. Anthony fiasco. A picture of Washington crossing the Delaware would look great on the back. Or if it has to be a building, how about Mount Vernon? The current single looks strange now next to all the other new bills.
It does seem particularly ironic to put the words “In God We Trust” over the World Trade Center, where almost 3000 innocent people died at the hands of religious fantatics.
No, as far as I can tell, browsing around on the BEP’s website, there are no plans to redesign the $1 bill. This is because the reason for the current new versions of other bills was to incorporate all that nifty counterfeiter-foiling stuff, and since counterfeiters rarely bother with dollar bills, well…
Cleveland is in Ohio.
Kent State is a University in Ohio
Clark Kent worked for a newspaper in Metropolis.
Metropolis is another name for New York.
Kevin Bacon once lived in New York.
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I think he was refering to the new trick of folding a (ten?) dollar bill to get the history of 9/11?
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Grover Cleveland was the Governor of New York before he was President.
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I’m with Walloon - how does Grover Cleveland figure into the satire?
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“Getting spanked by a President is nothing. Why, I myself was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two nonconsecutive occasions.”
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I don’t know - the “Loonie” and the $2 coins both work pretty well in Canada. Don’t you think that folks would take to the new $1 coin if the notes weren’t being produced anymore and were simply allowed to slowly go ot of ciruclation?
Another bit of evidence that the bill pictured there is a fake: There’s no blank space for the “watermark” image. Unless, of course, the Powers that Be decided that there was no need for security measures on a grand bill. Heck, who would want to counterfeit that?
Also, if you compare the portraits of Cleveland on the old bill and the ‘new’ one, you’ll see that they’re the same. The portraits on all the new US currancy were redesigned. And the one on the ‘new’ bill is nowhere near as sharp as it should be, compared to the rest of the bill. It’s just the old one, probably enlarged to fit.
Am I the only one who noticed immediately that the signature “Matthew Trump”, the name of the person who created that web page, is on the bill? Above the title “Secretary of the Treasury”, no less?
quote: I don’t know - the “Loonie” and the $2 coins both work pretty well in Canada. Don’t you think that folks would take to the new $1 coin if the notes weren’t being produced anymore and were simply allowed to slowly go of of ciruclation?
They sure would, except that’s not what they did. They kept on printing paper dollars and took out ads begging people to use the new coin. They don’t seem to understand that the only way to make the change is to force it down people’s throats. I guess they don’t want to hear the bitching and whining that Americans are so famous for. Maybe they should just keep the paper dollar and come out with a $2 coin.
quote: Also, if you compare the portraits of Cleveland on the old bill and the ‘new’ one, you’ll see that they’re the same. The portraits on all the new US currancy were redesigned. And the one on the ‘new’ bill is nowhere near as sharp as it should be, compared to the rest of the bill. It’s just the old one, probably enlarged to fit.
Are they all different? The picture of Jackson on the $20 looks the same as the old one, only enlarged and cropped. I don’t see many $50’s or $100’s but those look the same to me too.
