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<p>[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1340771, member: 22476"]Look at the post better. The $2 bill would POSSIBLY have to be redesigned BY LAW PASSED FOR FEATURES FOR THE VISSUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND *NOT* ANTI-COUNTERFEITING MEASURES.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm NOT "shouting" with those "caps". Just pointing out your error and misunderstanding of my post. And also, if they are not redesigning the $2 bill just because it is not counterfeited, why are they redesigning certain coins, I mean, who counterfeits pennies? I know they were commemorating the 100th aniversery of the Lincoln cent and Lincoln's 200th birthday, but, if thats the case, why couldn't they have commemorated the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase on the back of a newly redesigned $2 bill with an updated front as well, and they could have done some beautiful artwork on the back of the $2 bill when they printed them in 2003 (the year of the bicentennial), much more beautiful art than on a coin. And if the $2 bill is not worth redesigning, why was the back of it redesigned in 1976?</p><p><br /></p><p>It would likely only cost the government $500,000 to $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to redesign the the $1 and $2 bills a piece (to do the artwork and print the first batch of redesigned bills), according to a middle school, trying to pass a $1 bill redesign Act called the "Liberty Dollar Bill Act" and due to the cost of only redesigning the bills just to make the currency uniformed, and not add many, if any security features at all to those two lowly denominations, that two million dollars (tops) is not going to make or break the government. The $1 bill is just not redesigned, due to costs to small businesses, who could care less if the $2 bill is redesigned, however, obviously, since, although Congress always blocks a $1 bill redesign by law, they never block any redesigns of the $2 bill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1340771, member: 22476"]Look at the post better. The $2 bill would POSSIBLY have to be redesigned BY LAW PASSED FOR FEATURES FOR THE VISSUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND *NOT* ANTI-COUNTERFEITING MEASURES. I'm NOT "shouting" with those "caps". Just pointing out your error and misunderstanding of my post. And also, if they are not redesigning the $2 bill just because it is not counterfeited, why are they redesigning certain coins, I mean, who counterfeits pennies? I know they were commemorating the 100th aniversery of the Lincoln cent and Lincoln's 200th birthday, but, if thats the case, why couldn't they have commemorated the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase on the back of a newly redesigned $2 bill with an updated front as well, and they could have done some beautiful artwork on the back of the $2 bill when they printed them in 2003 (the year of the bicentennial), much more beautiful art than on a coin. And if the $2 bill is not worth redesigning, why was the back of it redesigned in 1976? It would likely only cost the government $500,000 to $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to redesign the the $1 and $2 bills a piece (to do the artwork and print the first batch of redesigned bills), according to a middle school, trying to pass a $1 bill redesign Act called the "Liberty Dollar Bill Act" and due to the cost of only redesigning the bills just to make the currency uniformed, and not add many, if any security features at all to those two lowly denominations, that two million dollars (tops) is not going to make or break the government. The $1 bill is just not redesigned, due to costs to small businesses, who could care less if the $2 bill is redesigned, however, obviously, since, although Congress always blocks a $1 bill redesign by law, they never block any redesigns of the $2 bill.[/QUOTE]
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