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20 Dollars Federal Reserve Note, large portrait
| Issuer | Federal Reserve System, United States |
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| Year | 1996-2001 |
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| Printer | Bureau of Engraving and Printing, United States (1862-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TWENTY THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY SERIES TWENTY DOLLARS JACKSON |
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| Protection description | A watermark portrait of Andrew Jackson embedded in the paper, visible when held to light, positioned to the right of the central vignette; a vertical security thread imprinted with 'USA TWENTY' woven into the paper and visible under UV light; the lower-right numeral '20' that shifts from green to black when the note is tilted. |
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The 1996 series was the first major U.S. currency redesign since the 1920s, pushed forward after the Secret Service and Treasury estimated that roughly $70 million in counterfeit U.S. notes were in circulation globally by the early 1990s — a significant share of it produced with commercial offset and laser printing technology that had simply outpaced the old design's security features. The enlarged off-center portrait, color-shifting ink in the numeral, and embedded polyester thread printed with "USA TWENTY" were all introduced together in this series.
The color-shifting ink shifts from green to black when tilted — a feature deliberately chosen because it cannot be reproduced by photocopiers or scanners available at the time of introduction.