The revamped $20 bill, along with its faint tinge of peach colour in the background, will make its way into bank vaults and consumers' pockets in early October, according to the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

The new $20, whose design is shown after its unveiling, is to be made available to banks on October 9, Marsha Reidhill, assistant director for cash and fiscal agency for the Federal Reserve, said in a recent interview.

The introduction into circulation of the new bill, a makeover of a bill previously redesigned in 1998, is meant to thwart increasingly high-tech counterfeiters.