here 'tis, folks . . . your NEW $20 bill . . .

[OneBlueSky]

don'tcha just love it? . . . :)

http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/09/pf/banking/new_20_launches/index.htm

[lcordero]

1. I'm going to have to see what a Euro looks like

Since it looks more like a Eurodollar than it did before. I wonder if they are trying to fool foreigners into thinking that it's a Euro.

[dutchdemocrat]

2. Canadian money is nice and colourful

And people can tell it apart easily.

[Must_B_Free]

11. funny munny

looks like monopoly

[dutchdemocrat]

16. Nice though

To have animals with no slogans about GOD and TRUST.

Here's the other side...

Queen copped the 20.

[booksenkatz]

23. Living near the border of Canada as I do

there's always some type of Canadian cash lying around here. My dh has a Canadian fiver on his bureau, and each time I pass by it, I can't help but think how much it looks like Lieberman.:D

[BurtWorm]

25. Euros are a little bit prettier

But Europeans don't believe in bills for some reason, so you wind up with a lot of coins.

My all time favorite money was the Dutch guilder, which was just a work of art. Let's see if I can find an example with Google. Ah yes:

[dutchdemocrat]

3. Pic

[punpirate]

4. Gawd...

... were Jackson's shoulders that small? Or was his head that big? And the greenish-peachy-pink makes him look a little bilious.

I guess it's a ploy to discourage savings and stimulate the economy--people will want to get them out of their wallets and out of their hands that much more quickly (as if they didn't fly away fast enough already)....

If it's meant to discourage the counterfeiters, they'll probably have `em on the street on Oct. 15th.

Cheers.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. OMG, Jackson has the shoulders of a woman!

And it looks like he's wearing a dress!

:wow:

[lostnfound]

5. I'm grateful they didn't put Bush on it (and surprised)..

[punpirate]

6. Think the president has to be dead for a...

... certain period of time. Otherwise, the yahoos in the House would have had Reagan on every bill by now....

[dutchdemocrat]

7. Yes....

[JohnKleeb]

18. *chuckle* thats a good one dutch

[JohnKleeb]

17. what i was thinking

welcome to DU lostnfound and go Kucinich

[dmr]

8. What is the embedded vertical plastic strip?

Among the features are a watermark image engrained into the paper itself; a vertical plastic strip embedded into the note; and color-shifting ink, whose appearance changes in hue from copper to green as the bill is tilted against light.

Is it just to prove the bill is legit? I get antsy these days when told something is embedded ... must be that Bush* syndrome I'm afflicted with.

[Journeyman]

9. Your $20s have had an embedded strip for years. . .

Look at the bill in strong light. The strip is to the left of the Federal Reserve Stamp.

[dmr]

13. Ok, thanks, didn't know that,

:)

[Interrobang]

30. Well, Canadian bills have had those for years.

A friend of mine's mother was on the team at 3M that developed them. One of the perquisites is that it's easier to tell whether a bill is counterfeit or not, the other is that the visually impaired can get a little machine that they can run down the side of the bill that will announce the denomination (in English or French as desired). (Assistive technology is sweet!!)

[Must_B_Free]

10. I rather see "In God we trust" gone

[quinnox]

12. I liked the old money

so much better, before the big heads and changed design. I understand that it's necessary to deter counterfeiters, but I thought the old money was aesthetically pleasing.

[ima_sinnic]

14. Iraq is getting new money too

[dutchdemocrat]

15. Yes!

Did you photoshop that?

[Kolesar]

20. that is hilarious

I wonder if any previous money ever had a tank on it. The flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 "Kalashnikov rifle" on it: http://flagspot.net/flags/mz.html

[Drifter]

31. Put a bubble near bush ...

Bring'em On

thanks for the image.

Cheers
Drifter

[dutchdemocrat]

19. What's with this thing anyway?

http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:vd-dOsBcA58C:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

22. New Age stuff

and Masonic in origin, I believe. The eye is the eye of God.

[Xithras]

32. Explanation a la Google

Providence Has Favored Our Undertakings

In the zenith of an unfinished pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal is "an Eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory... Over the Eye these words 'Annuit Coeptis'."

The Latin phrase annuit coeptis has been traced to Virgil, the renowned Roman poet who lived in the first century B.C. His epic masterpiece, the Aeneid, contains the phrase: Jupiter omnipotens, audacibus annue coeptis. (All-powerful Jupiter, favor daring undertakings.)

Also, in Virgil's Georgics are the words: Da facilem cursum, atque audacibus annue coeptis. (Give an easy course, and favor daring undertakings.)

Charles Thomson changed the first person imperative annue to the third person annuit. In the motto Annuit Coeptis, the subject of the verb must be supplied, and the translator must also choose the tense. Thomson explained:

"The pyramid signifies Strength and Duration: the Eye over it & the Motto allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favour of the American cause."

The Eye is therefore the missing subject.
According to the U.S. State Department, the translation is:

"It has favored our undertakings"

Variations include:
Providence is favorable to our undertakings.
God has favored our undertakings.
He favors our undertakings.

NOTE: Annuit does not mean "to announce" (annuntio).

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Beneath the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal is the Latin phrase "Novus ordo seclorum." Charles Thomson chose this motto, probably borrowing it from Virgil, the famed Roman poet who lived in the first century B.C.

Virgil wrote the phrase, Magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo, in the fifth line of his classic Eclogue IV. It has been translated in different ways, including:

A mighty order of ages is born anew.
The great series of ages begins anew.
The ages' mighty march begins anew.
The majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew.

The phrase is part of a prophecy about the fate of the Roman empire:

"Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl song has come and gone,
and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew . . .
the Iron age shall cease, the Golden race arise . . .
and shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear."

Thomson coined the motto: Novus ordo seclorum.
The correct translation, according to the U.S. State Department, is:
"A new order of the ages."

Thomson explained:
"The date underneath is that of the Declaration of Independence and the words under it signify the beginning of the new American Æra, which commences from that date."

NOTE: Novus ordo seclorum does not mean "new world order."

[CoffeePlease1947]

21. Like anyone knows what real $20 bill looks like under Bush

Been a while since you seen one of those?

Mike

[StaggerLee]

24. Hey! Since when has Peter Gammon's mug been on the 20?

[MadHound]

26. What a waste of time and money

They changed the money what, six, seven years ago to discourage counterfeiting, yet here they are doing it again. Seems like a waste of time and money to me. Hell, with computers and copiers able to create high quality reproductions of anything paper, I bet it will be only about a week or so before some counterfeits hit the street somewhere.

The real kicker is that probably in about five years the bills will be redesigned again, this time to include RFID chips in them. Then Pointdexter and cohorts can track you and your money anywhere.

[Bossy Monkey]

28. AGAIN? Didn't we just play this game?

When did I move to Italy? Wait-- that's changing the government every year... Hey! Let's move to Italy!

[WoodrowFan]

29. Peter Gammons

I SWEAR that's Peter Gammons...