Bank note engraving

http://www.newsday.com/news/educatio...-sbp-headlines

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John Stone wrote:
http://www.newsday.com/news/education/sbp/ny-sbp_110603,0,5347463.story?coll=ny-sbp-headlines

It's a "Student Briefing Page" explaining US BEP engravers and the
process of printing notes.

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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To:

IMHO the 'BEP' needs new artists, (Real Artists) On the reverse of the
new colorised $20 bill there are itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow 20s,
That's what they call art!!!. Give the BEP artists a kids coloring book
and wacth them screw it up.

That said, I wonder that maybe kids could do a better job?

Dave

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IMHO the 'BEP' needs new artists, (Real Artists) On the reverse of the
new colorised $20 bill there are itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow 20s,
That's what they call art!!!. Give the BEP artists a kids coloring book
and wacth them screw it up.



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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:04:12 -0400, (Edward
McGrath) wrote:

IMHO the 'BEP' needs new artists, (Real Artists) On the reverse of the
new colorised $20 bill there are itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow 20s,
That's what they call art!!!. Give the BEP artists a kids coloring book
and wacth them screw it up.

I suspect the artists/engravers did what they were TOLD to do, i.e.
they didn't have any say in the matter.

Dave wrote: That said, I wonder that maybe kids could do a better job?
snip OH NO!!! I'm not suggesting kids design our paper notes, look
what happened to the state quarters when kids designs ended up on the
quarters YUK!. I like a lot of the artistic designs on the notes from
the 1800s and would like to see that type of quality on our modern US
notes. I don't feel there is any real effort put into the art aspect in
our modern notes, yet they pat themselves on the back for creating what
essentially is the same $50 bill with a larger portrait image with a
colorised background. I know any change to our notes are better than
nothing. I really believe if they produced a modern note with the same
artistic beauty as say the educational notes a lot of new people would
become paper money collectors and that would be a boost to the paper
money hobby. Ed