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New $50 bill
2004-05-05, 7:10 PM #1
The US Treasury unveiled the design for the new $50 bill, which will begin going into circulation this fall. Here are the pics:

[http://www.pyrouniverse.com/pics/50front.gif]

[http://www.pyrouniverse.com/pics/50back.gif]

This is the second bill to be redesigned. All of you have probably have seen the new peach-colored $20 that began showing up last October. This whole thing is a part of a new campaign desined to make US currency much harder to counterfeit. You can check out the official website here.

So, what do you guys think? I think both designs look pretty cool. However, since I almost never use actual $50 notes, I probably won't see them much.

(yes, I know this happened several weeks ago, but I never saw a thread about it. Please don't "old newz" me...)

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2004-05-05, 7:18 PM #2
*print*

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2004-05-05, 7:20 PM #3
I like the red and blues on hte front

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2004-05-05, 7:22 PM #4
old newz...

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2004-05-05, 8:30 PM #5
Is photoshop gonna prevent the scanning of this one too? :P

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2004-05-05, 8:36 PM #6
Is that 1:1?

I held an Aussie $50 note up against the screen, the US bill has a good 2 inches on it.

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2004-05-05, 8:40 PM #7
It's a lot bigger than the actual note

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2004-05-05, 8:48 PM #8
Glad to hear it... Else you guys must have mighty big wallets [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-05-05, 8:51 PM #9
It's sad how horrible U.S. bills look compaired to European or Aussy bills.

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2004-05-05, 10:31 PM #10
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Is that 1:1?
I held an Aussie $50 note up against the screen, the US bill has a good 2 inches on it.

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Ehh, you do know that the size is going to be different depending on how large your monitor is and what resolution you're running in? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-05-06, 12:55 AM #11
Our Canadian 50 dollar bill looks better.... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-05-06, 2:59 AM #12
hah, even a scan doesn't let you counterfeit bills accurately.

The new Canadian 100$ bill has stuff printed in-between the sides. a face that doesn't show up on either side, except when you set the bill against a light, then it appears, along with all kinds of fine print and relief and holos that no common printer could copy.

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2004-05-06, 3:03 AM #13
Bah, them americans are just trying to copy our canadian money, We have multi colored bills for a LONG time.

our bills do have alot of anti-countereiting in them, water marks, the background is acualy made of tiny 20,10,50,100's depending on the bill and the way the people are drawn is extremly hard to copy.

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2004-05-06, 3:06 AM #14
It's great, besides the parasitic swarm of yellow 50s attacking the Capitol's dome of protection. What kind of jacked up symbolism is that?
2004-05-06, 4:02 AM #15
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2004-05-06, 5:14 AM #16
ooooo... colour.

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2004-05-06, 5:30 AM #17
Heh, any pictures of British notes have to be incomplete (only showing half the note) or have to have a big red 'SAMPLE' (or something else, I can't remember what) text written across it.

They had to reprint a load of the new £20 notes because they got Robert Stephenson's date of birth wrong. There's only a few thousand of the incorrect ones in existance.
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2004-05-06, 5:38 AM #18
/presses print

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Sweet irony...
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2004-05-06, 5:41 AM #19
[http://shauri.hopto.org/cooker/50front.jpg]

I KNEW IT!!

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2004-05-06, 5:43 AM #20
The grocery store clerk never holds your dollar bills up to the light...

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2004-05-06, 8:04 AM #21
true...but if someone were still to print a perfect-looking bill on regular paper, the texture alone would be a dead givaway. I believe that real money is made from a combination of linen and cotton, which kind of gives it a bit of a "soft" feel - even new ones.

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2004-05-06, 8:31 AM #22
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Katt:
true...but if someone were still to print a perfect-looking bill on regular paper, the texture alone would be a dead givaway. I believe that real money is made from a combination of linen and cotton, which kind of gives it a bit of a "soft" feel - even new ones.

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It's amazing how soft regular printer paper feels after you roll it back and forth in your hand for awhile...


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2004-05-06, 8:44 AM #23
I liked the old green backs. All this color is disturbing me.

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2004-05-06, 9:13 AM #24
Then you must be scared of canadian money =]

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2004-05-06, 9:31 AM #25
Completely unrelated byut interesting:

I heard somewhere that most money that has been in circulation for awhile has trace ammounts of drug residue on it.

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2004-05-06, 9:35 AM #26
Ha.. interesting

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2004-05-06, 9:41 AM #27
Yeah.. I hate these new bills.. I like them with just green, none of this red, blue, yellow crap.. Feh

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2004-05-06, 10:02 AM #28
The american bil system is odd to me.

I was in new york for an art trip and I acualy had to *look* at the bills i was using, they all looked so much alike.

Up here in Canada, if something is five bucks, Look for a blue bill, fifty, look for a red one.

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2004-05-06, 1:10 PM #29
I hate the gold 50's that are dotted randomly on the back.

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2004-05-06, 1:13 PM #30
I don't care about the dollar, I want the money!

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2004-05-06, 1:26 PM #31
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Grant:
Up here in Canada, if something is five bucks, Look for a blue bill, fifty, look for a red one.

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I think that's also part of the reason they're adding color to the bills - to make the different denominations more distinguishable from each other.



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2004-05-06, 1:37 PM #32
...in case you can't read the numbers?
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2004-05-06, 1:46 PM #33
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
Completely unrelated byut interesting:

I heard somewhere that most money that has been in circulation for awhile has trace ammounts of drug residue on it.

</font>



Yeah, a test was conducted, 9 out of 10 bills have traces of cocaine on them.

Said to have happened when Drug dealers had money next to their pile of Coke and it got on it, and after that money was used it came in contact with other money and so on.

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2004-05-06, 1:51 PM #34
...but reading the numbers takes to long, though! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-05-06, 1:59 PM #35
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BurrBoy:

Yeah, a test was conducted, 9 out of 10 bills have traces of cocaine on them.

Said to have happened when Drug dealers had money next to their pile of Coke and it got on it, and after that money was used it came in contact with other money and so on.

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Ummm... a much more logical scenerio is that people use rolled up bills to snort coke...lol...it's a little obvious now isn't it [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]



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2004-05-06, 2:15 PM #36
I think the bill looks INFINITELY better. WOOT! at least the goverment is doing SOMETHINMG right

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2004-05-06, 2:36 PM #37
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Grant:
Up here in Canada, if something is five bucks, Look for a blue bill, fifty, look for a red one.

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Ooh, like monopoly!

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2004-05-06, 2:42 PM #38
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
...in case you can't read the numbers?</font>


it's not that we can't read numbers, but if your in a hurry it's just easier to think, well, I need a red(50), a green(20), a purple(10) and blue(5) then to sift through the entire stack of cash looking in the corner to make sure it's the right value.



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2004-05-06, 3:23 PM #39
I'm not sure if it's an urban legend, but if that 9 in 10 thing is true it's 9 in 10 HUNDRED dollar bills.
2004-05-06, 3:39 PM #40
1 - I think it's ugly.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Katt:
I think that's also part of the reason they're adding color to the bills - to make the different denominations more distinguishable from each other.

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This is a bad idea imo... for example, today I wanted to stop by the computer store after school so I had a wad of money in my car... well, this wad of money happened to have about 4 20's and a hundred dollar bill in it, so I put a 5 on the outside so it wouldn't be too obvious that it's alot of money. So maybe that's a little paranoid, but it's safe practice if you ask me if you take measures like this to make sure not just anyone can walk by and tell you're holding alot of money. if you keep small bills on the outside, for all they know it's just a stack of ones...

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