how many years ago did we leave England???
Oct. 7th, 2002 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokizmomhow many years ago did we dump the tea in the harbor???
now we're planning to be JUST LIKE THEM!!!
check this shyte out chaps:
As early as next year, $20 bill to take on color U.S. to start rollout of new hues
By Barbara Hagenbaugh
USA TODAY
Coming to an ATM near you: colorful cash.
As early as fall 2003, the $20 bill will have a new color, as the United States launches a major revamping of its currency that will feature multicolor bills, government officials said Thursday.
The twenty is the most counterfeited bill and the favorite of automated teller machines.
The biggest difference from the greenback is that each denomination will feature a combination of ''subtle'' colors in areas that are now neutral. Not wanting to give counterfeiters a head start, officials declined to discuss which colors will be used.
The color will allow the government to add yet-to-be-announced security features and will also give consumers an easy way to check for fakes.
Officials promise the design, to be unveiled next year, won't be too crazy.
''We're maintaining the traditions of American currency,'' says Tom Ferguson, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
New $50 and $100 bills will be issued up to a year and a half after the $20.
Subway systems, vending machine firms and others that use machines to scan $20 bills must redesign equipment to recognize the new bills. That will cost time and money. Companies spent $350 million to retrofit machines in the last change in 1996, according to the National Automatic Merchandising Association.
Metro, Washington, D.C.'s subway system, spent $2.5 million to retrofit its fare card machines six years ago.
The 1996 redesign was the first change in the greenback in 70 years. The government now plans an update every seven to 10 years, partly because computers have made counterfeiting easier. Last fiscal year, one-third of the $47.5 million in circulated counterfeit cash was computer-generated. That's up from 0.5% in 1995, the Secret Service says.
good freakin lord i say
now we're planning to be JUST LIKE THEM!!!
check this shyte out chaps:
As early as next year, $20 bill to take on color U.S. to start rollout of new hues
By Barbara Hagenbaugh
USA TODAY
Coming to an ATM near you: colorful cash.
As early as fall 2003, the $20 bill will have a new color, as the United States launches a major revamping of its currency that will feature multicolor bills, government officials said Thursday.
The twenty is the most counterfeited bill and the favorite of automated teller machines.
The biggest difference from the greenback is that each denomination will feature a combination of ''subtle'' colors in areas that are now neutral. Not wanting to give counterfeiters a head start, officials declined to discuss which colors will be used.
The color will allow the government to add yet-to-be-announced security features and will also give consumers an easy way to check for fakes.
Officials promise the design, to be unveiled next year, won't be too crazy.
''We're maintaining the traditions of American currency,'' says Tom Ferguson, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
New $50 and $100 bills will be issued up to a year and a half after the $20.
Subway systems, vending machine firms and others that use machines to scan $20 bills must redesign equipment to recognize the new bills. That will cost time and money. Companies spent $350 million to retrofit machines in the last change in 1996, according to the National Automatic Merchandising Association.
Metro, Washington, D.C.'s subway system, spent $2.5 million to retrofit its fare card machines six years ago.
The 1996 redesign was the first change in the greenback in 70 years. The government now plans an update every seven to 10 years, partly because computers have made counterfeiting easier. Last fiscal year, one-third of the $47.5 million in circulated counterfeit cash was computer-generated. That's up from 0.5% in 1995, the Secret Service says.
good freakin lord i say
