I expect the wavy "USA TWENTY" is a watermark, not normally visible.
I dunno, I can't say this really bothers me.
New $20 bill coming out Tuesday.
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LOL I had a great day today. My boss(He owns a bar) was reading about this in the paper. He went ballisitic. He said it would be a cold day in hell before he excepted monopoly money at his businessDahak wrote:It really doesn't look like it has many security features built in...
Maybe more than the older ones, but still...
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Well people could bleach the 1$ bills and reprint them to 100$, so they would feel the same (not sure about effects of bleach). Fortunately there's the security thread, unfortunately most people are too lazy to examine their positions
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Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
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Like the article said
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
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Try that with a Euro bill...Pu-239 wrote:Well people could bleach the 1$ bills and reprint them to 100$, so they would feel the same (not sure about effects of bleach). Fortunately there's the security thread, unfortunately most people are too lazy to examine their positions
Security threads are sooo old, even the old DM-bills had them decades ago...
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Euros are evil, there small size makes currency smuggling too easy.Dahak wrote: Try that with a Euro bill...
Security threads are sooo old, even the old DM-bills had them decades ago...
That was an actual objection by many experts
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
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— Field Marshal William Slim 1956