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?
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!
: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
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.
Exactly! And not just a hatred for banks, Already in Use, but *paper currency[i/], too. Go figure.
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.