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NEW $5 Bill

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New $5 Bill Debuts During 'Wi-5' Event

First-Ever 'Digital Unveiling' of a Redesigned Bill Introduction Scheduled
for Early 2008

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. government
today digitally unveiled a new, more secure design for the $5 bill that
will be issued and enter circulation in early 2008. A new $100 bill will
follow. This is the first time in history that U.S. paper money has ever
been unveiled entirely online.
Similar to recently redesigned $10, $20 and $50 bills, the new $5 bill
incorporates improved, easy-to-use security features, making it easier for
businesses and consumers to check the new $5 bills they receive and more
difficult for counterfeiters to fake.

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Full Press Release

Official Government Site
 
Chundles said:
Still basically green, still the same size as all the other notes. Meh.

I love our brightly coloured, different sized notes.
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me 3. If i remember correctly, the bills are made from plastic right so when you go surfing it doesn't get ruined (or that's what i was told when i was there)
 
I really like the design of the new bills:
- Still basically green with a different hue to each denomination.
- The colored background images on the front
- Improved security features
- All bills the same size

So far, we've been able to keep our traditional "greenbacks," while enhancing the overall look and security.

That said, it takes our completely inept treasury so long to design and rollout these new designs that there are now inconsistencies between the first denomination in the new series ($20, released 2003) and the new $5. It's absolutely stupid. Why would it be so hard to release the entire set at the same time, ensuring a nice, consistent series? ...But I suppose these minute details are negligible when you consider the fact that we now have three completely different series designs currently in production (the most recent series, as demonstrated by the new $5; the former series, still represented by the $100; and the series before that - the $1, with absolutely no plans to ever update it).

Plus, all former designs are still excepted a full face value. If I'm going to counterfeit money, I'll just forge the old bills, thus bypassing all of the new security features.

And don't even get me started on our $1 coins. ...Our treasury can take such a wonderful idea and then demonstrate, by example, every way in which you should not make a $1 coin.
 
I only have one question for the designers...

Could they make the 5 any bigger?

According to an article I found...

"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

I guess they achieved their goal.
 
Why can't we have some cool looking colorful bills, like the Euro for example?

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The Canadian bills don't look too shabby either:
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Why is our currency so fugly? If they can no longer make the US Dollar worth anything, can't they at least make it pretty? :p
 
Omg I HATE IT! lol...
The only part I REALLY hate, is the purple "5"... looks so cheesy... I really hope they aren't trying to make our money look like those foreign country's money (all colorful, and joyful lol)
 
I like american currency the most easiest to carry around. Maybe Im just used to it. Like the new 5 very nice
 
That huge *** purple 5 is uglyyy!

If they're going to take away our greenbacks, at least give us something pretty, like the quro (which is also worth something these days ;) )
 
Why is the Queen (of England) on the Canadian note?

The Aussie note, I guess, fair enough - but the Canadian?

I'm not jealous of her being shared - I don't care - I'm just interested as to why..
 
Blue Velvet said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
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How the hell is she the Queen of so many countries?

I knew she was the Queen of our home, and Aussie land.. but, but..

"In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis"
 
JDT said:
How the hell is she the Queen of so many countries?

I knew she was the Queen of our home, and Aussie land.. but, but..

"In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis"
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They had a little "empire" back at the turn of the last century. They were involved in a couple of little skirmishes you may have heard of :3
 
Chundles said:
Still basically green, still the same size as all the other notes. Meh.

I love our brightly coloured, different sized notes.
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I don't really care about colors, it's not like it's a fashion statement, it's cash.

But I will say that different sized notes would just annoy me to no end.
 
Nasty, nasty bill. The huge 5 in the corner is overkill, as if we can't read the other large 5's in the other three corners, and does not match at all. The US does not get that the purpose to bills having different colors is so you can easily see how much you have. With still green bills but some funky tint, you still have to flip through them to see what each bill is.

Such a horrible design.
 
evilgEEk said:
I don't really care about colors, it's not like it's a fashion statement, it's cash.

But I will say that different sized notes would just annoy me to no end.
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The size differences really aren't very annoying in use. We have that system here in Canada, and most people don't even notice.


Personally, I've always been partial to Newfoundland money...
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:p
 
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