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$5 Bill to Have Splashes of Purple, Gray(No more "greenbacks")
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top14sep20,0,305099,print.story?coll=la-ap-topnews-headlines ^ | September 20, 2007 | MARTIN CRUTSINGER

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 ...


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Link to new five dollar bill: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney
1 posted on 09/20/2007 5:41:02 PM PDT by kellynla
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Link to new five dollar bill:
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney


2 posted on 09/20/2007 5:41:57 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

NWO CONSPIRACY. AS ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED THE BEAMS FROM THEIR SUPER-SECRET TRANSMISSIONS KNOWS, THE FLAG OF THE NWO IS PURPLE AND GRAY!


3 posted on 09/20/2007 5:42:34 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: kellynla

I always wondered why we never used different size bills like the European nations.


4 posted on 09/20/2007 5:42:50 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: kellynla
"..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..."

Too bad but the change is necessary.

5 posted on 09/20/2007 5:43:43 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: kellynla

"Blast you, Treasury Department! I shall contact Ron Paul and he'll put a stop to this madness! Return to the Gold Standard, NOW!"

6 posted on 09/20/2007 5:45:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt presidential candidate to ever run for office)
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To: kellynla

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.


7 posted on 09/20/2007 5:47:21 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: kellynla

ITS GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT!!


8 posted on 09/20/2007 5:48:24 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: kellynla

Soon to be worth only 3 Euros.


9 posted on 09/20/2007 5:50:03 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Grizzled Bear
I always wondered why we never used different size bills like the European nations.

Because they're a pain in the ass.

Ever spend a few years over there?

10 posted on 09/20/2007 5:50:35 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: kellynla

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?


11 posted on 09/20/2007 5:50:50 PM PDT by rineaux (Just say NO to taglines)
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To: kellynla

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/


12 posted on 09/20/2007 5:51:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Lion Den Dan
Our money looks like crap these days.

It does. The guys that designed the Yugo work in the U.S. Treasury Department.

13 posted on 09/20/2007 5:52:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Yeah, wonderful. Now the good old U.S. greenback is going to look like Third World “funny money”.

):^(


14 posted on 09/20/2007 5:53:27 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: durasell

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...


15 posted on 09/20/2007 5:56:13 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: Cobra64

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?


16 posted on 09/20/2007 6:00:09 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: elcid1970

Would be a great time to fool the counterfeiters … go back to our original paper money (circa 1960).


17 posted on 09/20/2007 6:01:52 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: padre35; durasell

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! ;-)


18 posted on 09/20/2007 6:01:53 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Grizzled Bear

I keep my wallet ordered by denomination. It’s difficult doing that with funny money... Too much time hunting for the right denomination. IMO


19 posted on 09/20/2007 6:03:36 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Clemenza; padre35

Handling the new $5.00 bill will cause you to turn gay and have an abortion.


20 posted on 09/20/2007 6:04:00 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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