Save the old style USA money

Can you keep the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills looking like their 1929 version (with different dates and signatures, of course) until at least 2012?
 

WeisSaul

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Can you keep the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills looking like their 1929 version (with different dates and signatures, of course) until at least 2012?

The US constantly has and still does change its money's appearance very frequently to throw off counterfeiters. This is ASB as the US never would have stuck with any design long term.
 
Actually, except for minor twiddles, the 1929 design lasted most of the way through the Nineties in OTL.
 
There is a difference between modest changes and the multicolor money we have now. A very thin silvery strip and a holographic treasury seal might have been sufficient.
 
Given the advances in color copying technology and the ingenuity of counterfiters along with the public pressure to change our "blahh", ""boring" and "antiquated looking" currency, I can't see a way for the "make no design change" folks to win the day. As it is, the changes that have been made over the past decade or so have been relatively minor. The same men and iconic scenes are featured and green remains the predominant color used on our currency. On the other hand, there being an efficient and successful grassroots "Don't Mess With My Money" campaign can't be ruled out here either.


The US constantly has and still does change its money's appearance very frequently to throw off counterfeiters. This is ASB as the US never would have stuck with any design long term.

Are you serious? U.S. currency went unchanged (aside from a few minor changes in the legal tender/redemability wording and what not) from 1928 to 1998, and even then the only change made was to the sizing of the obverse portrait. New symbols and colors of ink have only been used for the past 8 years. I'd say that utilizing the same basic design for 70+ years constigtutes sticking with a design for the long term.
 
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