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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 868880, member: 19065&quot;]The available old designs would be an interesting twist to try to update but I&#039;m not sure that it would be that easy to integrate the modern features into the old look. One problem would be how the detail of older intaglio processes could hold detail on a paper substrate but in today&#039;s notes, they use something known as an &#039;enhanced&#039; intaglio printing, which gives the printed image a more pronounced raised texture. I feel that this feature has contributed to the simpler line design of the portraits because they are more crude in execution, less detail, since the lines are spaced farther apart; overall there are less lines to utilize for fine detail. To reuse an old design wouldn&#039;t be just a reworked die, but a total rebuild and integration of an old look, interpreted in modern die and plate preparation. This would alter the final look and the elegance so desired would have to give way to detail in modern production just to recreate the concept of classic currency. I think it&#039;s to the benefit of the modern currency design that they do not stoop to these levels, and lessen the quality of work of craftsmen and security engravers of earlier times but instead model the currency after the challenges we face today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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