U.S. Currency to get Colorized [Archive] - Beyond.ca - Car Forums

View Full Version : U.S. Currency to get Colorized

Dope Dealer

12-02-2002, 03:42 PM

COLOR IS COMING, and government money makers are hoping for a warmer reception for the changes. The new $20, with its public unveiling set for the spring, is supposed to be in circulation as early as next fall.

Jackson is first in line for a makeover. After the new $20 makes its debut, the new $50 (Ulysses S. Grant) and the $100s (Benjamin Franklin) will follow in within 18 months.

In the works is a five-year effort, costing up to $53 million, to educate people about the changes. An important goal is to help distinguish between genuine greenbacks and bogus bills.

Full article can be found here (http://www.msnbc.com/news/841864.asp).

redec

12-02-2002, 03:52 PM

bwahaha...silly americans....it's about time, thier money is so god-awful ugly....they should get rid of the $1 bill too.

kenny

12-02-2002, 03:54 PM

No way man, I love going to Vegas and having a nice thick stack of $1 bills. Add a money clip and you feel like king until you realize the money clip is worth more than the wad of $1s hahaha.

D'z Nutz

12-02-2002, 04:00 PM

Speaking of new currency, did you guys know we had a 50 cent coin issued this summer???? I was at the post office sending off some mail and I got one back for my change. Other than that one I got, I never seen any more...

Ferio_vti

12-02-2002, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by redec
bwahaha...silly americans....it's about time, thier money is so god-awful ugly....they should get rid of the $1 bill too.

They're in the process. They've got a dollar coin already in curculation for a year so now.

Dope Dealer

12-02-2002, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by D'z Nutz
Speaking of new currency, did you guys know we had a 50 cent coin issued this summer???? I was at the post office sending off some mail and I got one back for my change. Other than that one I got, I never seen any more...

I've seen three or four of them now.

redec

12-02-2002, 04:32 PM

D'z Nutz

12-02-2002, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by redec

um...there always has been....they're just not very popular.....you always could go down to the post office or a bank and get some....

Seriously?? I thought that 50 cent pieces were discontinued for a long while.... Last one I saw was from back in the 70's I think :dunno:

GTS Jeff

12-02-2002, 04:44 PM

haha 50 cent coins are from the 60s.....and they were put out of circulation a long time ago too...but they still come up here and there.

same with silver dollars, and 1 and 2 dolla billz

Hakkola

12-02-2002, 04:47 PM

I saw a brand new 50 cent coin about a month and a half ago, they're coming back. I didn't get a good look at it but it was pretty damn shiney that's why i figure it's new.

Dope Dealer

12-02-2002, 04:50 PM

All my 50 Cent coins are marked as 2002.

rage2

12-02-2002, 05:02 PM

50 cent coins are very popular at casinos.

Zephyr

12-02-2002, 08:45 PM

i hope its not gay colors such as pink and purple like every other country...

Stratus_Power

12-02-2002, 08:50 PM

haha remember that simpsons where homer got Kidnapped in Brazil...

something like " look at our money, they sure look gay"

HRD2PLZ

12-02-2002, 08:51 PM

I have a 50 cent coin I got after getting gas somewhere...I think they thought it was a quarter :rofl: but anyway, its marked 2002 also.