"Blast you, Treasury Department! I shall contact Ron Paul and he'll put a stop to this madness! Return to the Gold Standard, NOW!"
Posted on 09/20/2007 5:40:59 PM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON — Honest Abe will become Colorful Abe with splashes of purple and gray livening up the $5 bill. The government showed off the new bill Thursday in an Internet news conference -- a high-tech unveiling that officials say is entirely appropriate for a 21st century redesign of the bill featuring the Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln.
The changes are similar to those already made, starting in 2003, to the $10, $20 and $50 bills. In those redesigns, pastel colors were added as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters and their ever-more-sophisticated copying machines.
Originally, the five wasn't going to be redesigned. But that decision was reversed once counterfeiters began bleaching $5 notes and printing fake $100 bills with the bleached paper to take advantage of the fact that some of the security features were in the same locations on both notes.
To thwart this particular scam, the government is changing the $5 watermark from one of Lincoln to two separate watermarks featuring the numeral 5. The $100 bill has a watermark with the image of Benjamin Franklin.
The security thread embedded in the $5 bill also has been moved to a different location than the one embedded in the $100 bill.
"We wanted this redesigned bill to scream, 'I am a five. I am a five,'" Larry Felix, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We wanted to eliminate any similarity or confusion on the part of the public between the $5 bill and the $100 bill."
Circulation is planned for the spring so operators of millions of vending machines have plenty of time to make the changes necessary so their devices will accept the new $5 -- a denomination used heavily in the machines.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Link to new five dollar bill:
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney
NWO CONSPIRACY. AS ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED THE BEAMS FROM THEIR SUPER-SECRET TRANSMISSIONS KNOWS, THE FLAG OF THE NWO IS PURPLE AND GRAY!
I always wondered why we never used different size bills like the European nations.
Too bad but the change is necessary.
"Blast you, Treasury Department! I shall contact Ron Paul and he'll put a stop to this madness! Return to the Gold Standard, NOW!"
I cashed a check the other day and lay the money on the table at home. What a depressing, raggedy sight. Our money looks like crap these days.
ITS GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT!!
Soon to be worth only 3 Euros.
Because they're a pain in the ass.
Ever spend a few years over there?
similarity or confusion on the part of the public between the $5 bill and the $100 bill.”
are we so dumb now that we cannot tell the difference between a 5 and a 100 dollar bill or is larry a big fan of queer guy for the straight guy and wants the 5 dlr bill to SCREAM- im’ a 5 dlr bill??
What BS will they sell us next?
Or, as the government says:
El gobierno de los Estados Unidos presentó hoy en forma digital un nuevo diseño más seguro del billete de $5 que se emitirá y entrará en circulación a principios de 2008. A este billete le seguirá el nuevo billete de $100. Ésta es la primera vez en la historia que se presentan billetes estadounidenses completamente en línea.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/es/
It does. The guys that designed the Yugo work in the U.S. Treasury Department.
Yeah, wonderful. Now the good old U.S. greenback is going to look like Third World “funny money”.
):^(
Now that is just silly, everyone knows the GWB is going to put his portrait on the 5 dollar bill...
Geez, must everything be explained again and again...
Ever spend a few years over there?
Yes. Germany, UK, etc...
I spent a total of about 11 years in Europe.
I found the different sizes easier, once you become accustomed to it.
What about the currency did you find so difficult?
Would be a great time to fool the counterfeiters … go back to our original paper money (circa 1960).
Haven’t you guys noticed that the new money uses the same color scheme as the Mexican peso? Its all part of Jorge Bush’s diabolical plot to merge us with Mexico, that evil terrorist, turd world nation that is a worse enemy than Al Qaeda! ;-)
I keep my wallet ordered by denomination. It’s difficult doing that with funny money... Too much time hunting for the right denomination. IMO
Handling the new $5.00 bill will cause you to turn gay and have an abortion.
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