New peach-colored $20 bills

[pandybat]

I'm glad I saw this or I would be freaking out if I got one, thinking it was counterfeit....lol

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New Peach-Colored $20 Bills to Make Debut Oct. 9

POSTED: 5:28 a.m. EDT September 9, 2003
UPDATED: 5:32 a.m. EDT September 9, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The new peach-hued U.S. $20 bill will be introduced at U.S. banks and businesses Oct. 9, officials plan to announce today, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.

The introduction into circulation of the new bill, a makeover of a bill previously redesigned in 1998, is meant to thwart increasingly high-tech counterfeiters. And even though it was not meant to be a security measure, the most prominent new feature of the bills, the addition of subtle peach, green and blue background colors, is expected to make counterfeiting harder.

The Federal Reserve and Treasury will flood the U.S. and overseas outlets with up to 900 million of the new notes next month, issuing only the new $20 through the end of October and withholding previously circulated $20s until November.

The front of the bills feature the familiar Andrew Jackson portrait, with a new peach background and without its old oval border. The back of the bill features a similar multihued scheme.


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[3tbear]

Those are pretty neat looking.

[YorkieLover]

Yeah, I like it, too. I've seen currency from other countries that are colorful like that, and always wondered why ours was so drab.

[Pipanella]

I just returned from Ecuador, where the US Dollar is the unit of currency, and has been, for the last three years. Counterfeiting is rampant there, and every single time I pulled out a twenty, the recipient held it up to the light to look for the security bar. I wonder what they'll do when they see the new ones. I'm sure they won't hear about it or see them as quickly as we do. When they went to the dollar, some of the locals wouldn't accept them because they thought it was a joke.

Did you know that several other countries also use the US Dollar for their unit of currency? I knew about Ecuador, but I wasn't aware of others until just last week! Ecuador, Palau, East Timor, Panama and the Federated States of Micronesia all use the US Dollar. Argentina did until just last year.

Here's a larger version of the new twenties: