# John Adams. Screwed by the US mint & treasury? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339 "2003-07-05T04:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/21 "2003-07-06T07:33:59Z")
Dang, just remembered that upon second reading of this thread, and thought, “I bet somebody’s come along to correct me.” But I do think he should be on a lower denomination, and we should get rid of Jackson. I mean, come on, a man with that virulent a hatred for banks has his picture on our currency? ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/22 "2003-07-06T10:29:22Z")
How about the newer currency - with the new counterfeit-defeating extra security stuffs. While working as shift-manager at a Hess Station in the 1980’s I checked out a suspect $20 against a checklist: Andrew Jackson looks like he needs a shave, greasy (oniony?) feel to this paper. Holding it up to light showed some green and red threads - yet before long colour copying defeated that. “Yep, I said”, “calling the manager was the thing to do. Seeya!” Another time, this dude pumped gas into and peeled off without paying! The secret service was less-interested in that oil for no-money perpetrator. I still chuckle when I successfully pass off a $50 bill. Oh, my point: The newer, enlarged bills make the respective presidents and wanna-be’s really ugly. They -all- need a shave! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/23 "2003-07-06T10:43:52Z")
:smack: that bit about the red and green threads didn’t belong in that paragraph/anecdote. There’s lots of ways nowadays to detect counterfeit money by holding up to the light - ribbons, alignment back-to-front - yet $20’s are the most commonly counterfeited bill yet more than once I’ve offered a $50 for something that cost more than $20 and had the clerk call a manager who held the bill up to the light. I still think the portraits on the new bills are very ugly. Jackson loses a shoulder! [SIZE=1]i’ll shut up now ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/24 "2003-07-06T13:40:31Z")
FYI: There was a piece on John Adams on “CBS This Morning”, interviewing David McCullogh, who wrote a book on Adams. Apparently the book helped a cause to build a memorial for Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/25 "2003-07-06T16:55:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Already in Use \* > \*\*…and we should get rid of Jackson. I mean, come on, a man with that virulent a hatred for banks has his picture on our currency? \*\* Exactly! And not just a hatred for banks, **Already in Use** , but \*paper currency[i/], too. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339/26 "2003-07-06T17:14:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*Woodrow Wilson was already on the $100,000 note. \*\* Any note with Wilson on it, should be forced to be segregated in honor of our 28th’s presidents reintroduction of Jim Crow laws to the Federal workplace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-adams-screwed-by-the-us-mint-treasury/186339.md?page=1)