When the US currency with larger, off-center portraits came out, the larger denominations came out first, so that when the new tens came out, customers would assure you in all honesty that they’d given you a twenty, since those were the only new-look bills they were used to handling.
When the US currency with larger, off-center portraits came out, the larger denominations came out first, so that when the new tens came out, customers would assure you in all honesty that they’d given you a twenty, since those were the only new-look bills they were used to handling.