Has the US $20 Banknote been redesigned in the last seven years?The simple answer to this question is yes, but then a lot of people are under the impression that the US 20 Dollar Bill has been redesigned several times. Is this true? Certainly not.

There have been 2 major changes to the $20 note since the late 1990's.

The $20 banknote got a very important face lift in 1998, this was in direct response to the problem of counterfeiting at which time it was also announced that the US banknotes will be redesigned every 7-10 years in order to stay ahead of the counterfeiters.

The view of the White House was changed to the North view and the picture of Andrew Jackson was larger and off center, other anti-counterfeiting features included, a watermark, color shifting ink and micro-printing. Under a black light the plastic strip which had "USA 20" written on it glowed green.

The only other time the US$20 banknote got redesigned was in 2003. These designs have been major as they significantly take the counterfeiters to task yet again.

The new bill includes different new features:

• The security thread that glows green under ultraviolet light. The thread or plastic strip reads "US Twenty" with an image of a flag running from top to bottom on both sides of the note.
• The color shifting ink makes it easier to check the note. When you tilt it up and down the number "20" on the face of the bill shifts from copper to green.

• The Watermark can be seen from both sides of the bill, when held up to the light a faint image of the portrait is discernable.

Other features include the large numeral "20" on the back of the bill in the lower right corner which is so much easier to read, the serial numbers appear twice on the face of the bill. The bill also has a subtle background color of green, peach and blue, thus began the new color feature of US banknotes.

This is just some extra stuff about the US $20 bill I came across.

It is suggested that the bill hides several images including:

1. The World Trade Center Attacks
2. The Pentagon Attack
3. The name "Osama"

The $20 bill and the 9/11 attacks

Osama and the $20 Bill