Making Money

Thu., Sept. 24, 1998

A redesigned, harder-to-counterfeit $20 bill (shown above on the bottom) is entering circulation today, but the old currency still will remain legal tender. The most obvious change is a larger, off-center portrait of President Andrew Jackson. The reverse side features a picture of the north side of the White House (instead of the south side on the old notes). The new bills have a watermark in the shape of a portrait, visible when the bills are held to a light, and an embedded green plastic security thread that glows under ultraviolet light. And the numeral in the lower right corner is printed in color-shifting ink it looks green when viewed straight on and black when viewed from an angle. The government also plans to issue new $10 and $5 bills simultaneously in 2000 and a redesigned $1 bill after that.

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