At least the new bills still have the picture of Peter Gammons on them.
Ah, but if I wear my transparent pants. . . . everyone will see how purty they is!
Something tells me, that if wearing transparent pants, the new twenty in your pocket might not be what people are looking at.
:eek:
I hope you’re right. 
My beef about the new American 20 is that they stole the Canadian font for the bottom right corner “20” on the back!!! That 20 is OURS!!!
Though I think we can expect a new 20 in the next couple of years, so ours will still be purtyer!!
Damn, I was really hoping they’d do something about the portraits. Poor Alex on the ten - he’s stuck with Geraldine Ferraro’s hair, and that’s just wrong.
I’ve a feeling that the design of that number is determined by legibility requirements for the visually-impaired. I mean, look at it! It doesn’t fit the rest of the design at all!
Now, if the ten turns out to be purplish, the five bluish, the fifty pinkish, and the hundred brownish, then we might have a complaint. 
Maybe I’m just suddenly colorblind but I don’t seem much in the way of coloring on the website picture…just very slight tinting. Won’t they be just as easy to duplicate as the old ones?
My beef is that our dear Mr. Jackson looks like he got into a street fight with Videl Sassoon and lost.
AFAIK, the US mint never actually had an ‘end-of-life’ for the old $20. They would replace the old design with the new one as bills were returned to banks and deemed to be worn out, but I’m pretty sure you can still use an 1990-era $20 bill as legal currency.
Of course, this pretty much eliminates reduction of counterfeit curency as a motive for introducing a new $20. If the old bills are still good, why bother to fake the new $20 when you can fake the easier-to-counterfeit old one?
Back to the quote about “keeping America’s $ in the pockets of American families”
Remind you of something out of the 50s? Maybe a little bit like a McCarthy era “Keeping America in the hands of Americans?”
And also… (besides the fact that the new $20 bill design creates absolutely NO change in who’s pocket its in) doesn’t the U.S. government want American currency to be the standard for international trade?
The whole statement:
Is like saying “We paint all of our company cars green to save the passengers in the event of an accident.”
:dubious:
I like this one better than the current style, frankly.
I never thought of it that way, jweb. I thought the banks’d be actively removing the old ones (pre-1990?) from circulation as they received them, and gradually there’s be fewer and fewer of them. I guess to truly be effective against counterfeiting, they’d have to declare an end date for the old notes’ validity, wouldn’t they?
At least the mint passed on the previous design where Jackson was wearing a crown and pearl necklace.
My WAG is that the color is in the paper. If counterfeiters attempt the leaching technique they would have to print the twenty’s color all over the bill. My guess is that’s what the Bureau of Engraving is counting on: printed ink looks different than paper white (or salmon).
I thought someone had spilled blue ink on the face of the bill until I saw it was an eagle’s wing…I think. <squints>
As for Dubya’s quote, I wouldn’t have been surprised if he’d made a reference to the war in Iraq. Any opportunity, you know.