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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 26307336, member: 130786&quot;]-That&#039;s a great story which brings back a memory for me too.&nbsp; Seven years earlier (in 1979), I got my first job at a carwash in a small town near Toronto, Ontario.&nbsp; This was the first time I had exposure to lots of cash &amp; was hit hard with the &quot;paper money bug.&quot; I actually found my first <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201888.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201888.html" rel="nofollow">1954 Twenty</a> (&amp; was hoping to get a <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201889.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201889.html" rel="nofollow">Devil&#039;s Face $20</a> -which never materialized) from a customer.&nbsp; But I did find lots of &quot;keepers.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was also when I first laid eyes on the newly introduced 1979 $20.00 (just like the one you posted). It happened while I was pumping gas (normally I manned the carwash kiosk but later at night, once I shut down the carwash, I relieved one of our &quot;gas-jockies&quot; so he could go get us our &quot;break&quot; snacks). Up until then, all TWENTIES, looked like this one (except most didn&#039;t have the asterisk- which makes this one a replacement/ nor the date stamp &quot;OCT 1 1974&quot;):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679545[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1679546[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But the 1979 design had moved the serial numbers to the back of the note! I remember staring at the first revised 79&#039; TWENTY (like yours) after a customer handed it to me &amp; my co-worker asking me when I was going to put it in the till! I scratched my head &amp; wondered &quot;why the heck had they changed such a nice looking $20 note?&quot; (They also changed the <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201909.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201909.html" rel="nofollow">$5.00</a> which I soon discovered). When I saw the change it motivated me to find a better 1969 TWENTY &amp; a decent <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201900.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201900.html" rel="nofollow">1972 FIVE</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The interesting thing about the replacement $20 I posted (&amp; bought on eBay) is that the &quot;1974&quot; stamp was the last year I worked at that carwash/gas station! Five fun years of note hunting (which I had to keep secret)!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well many years later, I read an article which stated that they changed the designs of both denominations to allow vending machines to read the numbers (authenticate).&nbsp; The article also stated that the 1969 TWENTY (as I&#039;ve posted) often got confused with the ONE DOLLAR note (mostly by seniors with poor vision) b/c the colours were so similar (green tones, I&#039;m guessing) so the revised $20 got a splash of pink (&amp; the rest of the colours muted). </p><p><br /></p><p>Below is one of the many $1.00 notes I found while working at that carwash station.</p><p>[ATTACH]1679547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1679548[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, your 1979 note brought back these memories b/c that was when I had my first exposure to large quantities of cash (1979). Credit cards back then were a rarity (we had to use these thin carbon-paper receipts which often got jammed when we swiped/processed them). Man, I hated those brutal card-swipers!</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone remember those old steel card-swipers that were such a pain to use?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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