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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 744795, member: 11668"]I doubt it'll affect *when* the next series comes out--the BEP has presumably been working on creating Rios-Geithner master plates ever since Rios was sworn in, and so that series will go into production on schedule even if Geithner's no longer around by then.  But if Geithner were to leave office in the near future, the Series 2009 notes with his signature might not be in production for very long, and might not be printed for very many denominations.   Sure, but 2006 $20's were printed in November 2006, three-and-a-half to four months after Paulson was sworn in.  A new series is typically phased in on one denomination at a time, with a month or two passing between denominations.  So the pace of the introduction of Series 2006 was really pretty typical; the only oddity was that the $1 came rather late in the cycle, instead of its more usual position at the head of the line: $20: November 2006$50: December 2006$100: January 2007$1: March 2007$5: May 2007$10: September 2007$2: looks like never From that list it *does* seem that the $10 was oddly delayed, but that only happened because no $10's were printed at all between October 2006 and September 2007.... The same sort of effect is likely to happen in Series 2009 as well: Assuming that the BEP still plans to print only $1's, $20's, and $100's in this fiscal year, as we heard back in January, it won't be possible for Series 2009 $2's, $5's, $10's, or $50's to be printed before October 2010.  In particular, if Geithner doesn't last at least another eight-nine months, his signature will probably never appear on those four denominations. So, here's my vaguely educated guess on the Series 2009 first printings: $1: November-December 2009$20: January-February 2010$100: February-March 2010$2, $5, $10, $50: late 2010 - early 2011 if Geithner's still around If the BEP decides to do the high-denomination bills before the $1 again, then it might be the $1 that doesn't make the changeover until March or so.  But I very much doubt that it'd go longer than that....  Also, the $100 is due to get Kodachromed at some point in the (hopefully) near future, which might affect the schedule in some fashion--the BEP might decide not to change the $100's signatures until the new design is ready to go, for example, if it's only one or two months extra to wait.[/QUOTE]

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