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The New Colors of U.S. Money

colourlovers.com — For as long as all of us can remember, the US dollar has been synonymous with the color green. But as of 2004 the US government has been redesigning our paper money and adding splashes color. The new $5 bill was just introduced and might be considered the most colorful piece of US currency ever produced.

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  • chmeee, on 10/10/2007, -20/+7I'm so sick of this fruit-colored money. It's called the 'greenback' for a reason.
    • Seidoger, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4Haha, and all you Americans talk of your money as being all (and too) "colorful" now.
      Just check the Canadian money, the Euros and many others. Now that's color (and in my case quick identifying in a wallet!)
      • theone3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Pfft.. You call that colourful? Check out Aussie Money http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Aust ...
        • nick111, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1As a New Zealander, I'd have to say that Australian money is gaudy and undignified.

          I think a design that brays for attention like this actually lowers the value of the currency.
          • theone3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think that's the most insane thing I've ever heard - Are you saying that the value of Australian labour and goods is lowered because the currency is colourful? If I'm buying 20 tonnes of steel then I'm going to buy it from a different supplier because the nation from which I would have otherwise purchased it has funny-coloured currency? Tourists spend less money because the colours offend them? That's the most deranged idea i've ever seen coming from a NZer.
          • theone3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think that's the most insane thing I've ever heard - Are you saying that the value of Australian labour and goods is lowered because the currency is colourful? If I'm buying 20 tonnes of steel then I'm going to buy it from a different supplier because the nation from which I would have otherwise purchased it has funny-coloured currency? Tourists spend less money because the colours offend them? That's the most deranged idea i've ever seen coming from a NZer.
      • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um what? What are you bitching about now? You have a vendetta against Americans.
        • Seidoger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's just that it is A recurring topic it seems: "Our money is too colorful!". Like okk, who cares.
          And nah, not a vendetta, its just a worldwide sport to bitch the united states.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8First Impression From Canada: OMG it's Monochrome money.
    • requinox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5These colors are barely fruity. The bills look like they've been bleached or tossed into a washing machine.
      • Huwawa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3He said FRUIT colored money. Not fruity.
    • texpundit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Hey...they're just trying to get us used to a "globalist" viewpoint. When our money turns the color of a rainbow, like most other countries' currencies, we won't feel so out of place.

      Either that, or when our economy collapses (which looks more and more relevant lately) they'll just issue the Amero (google it) in UN standardized sizes and colors.

      Gosh, it was nice when "sovereignty" meant something.
      • Batfishy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I always thought that way, texpundit. But now I think - what is so wrong with being less divided by borders and finding a different kind of relationship with other countries? Less political and confrontational, but still with differences which are almost necessary for any kind of relationship which balance each other. Maybe global is where we are heading and it all depends on how it is done. I don’t know, what am I talking about?
        • texpundit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm kind of there with you on that thought...but I'm more for a "tribalist" regression. Screw global governments. Screw federal government. Let localities police and govern themselves (because, who knows better how a tribe/town/county/state should be run than its inhabitants?) and get the "one size fits all" globalist/federalist noses out of our business.

          And let foreign relations happen on that level.

          Hell...maybe I'm turning into a neo-anarchist...? *shrugs*
          • Batfishy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Well, I have been wondering myself exactly what I think lately (they have me so confused). I like the tribal/town/county idea, but then there would have to be so much tolerance and some of us aren't up to that. It would be nice to find something real that could eventually work out in a hundred years.

            I don't know what I am turning into! And I have a lot to learn.
          • texpundit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you live in DC and am of drinking age? If so, email me. I'll fill you in on the whole scenario...and buy you drinks.

            And this is an offer to anyone in the area the has any doubts. Freedom and liberty should be the RULE, not the EXCEPTION.
    • p51d007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Changing the "color of money" won't be as hard to accept today, as say 30 years ago. Before the introduction of "plastic", everything was paid with either a check or cash. Older Americans, fearful from living during the depression, are harder to accept change. Younger Americans, who's history of America pretty much starts the day they were born, don't have the built in fear of the depression era, and are more acceptable to change. Heck, I'm in my late 40's and it doesn't bother me too much to change the money. I hardly ever carry cash
      anymore. I prefer the debit card. It's more convenient than cash, I can check my balance & transactions on my cell phone, and I don't have to worry about having my wallet stolen with a lot of cash, because my card (bank) protects me and my card in the case it is lost
      or stolen. Eventually, we will become a cashless society.
      • BelXul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree that it usually is more convenient. Less trips to the bank to make withdrawls of spending money for necessities and all, but a cashless system totally fails when the power goes out. I'm not speaking hypothetically by any means, and I am not inferring that the entire power grid across the US will suddenly fail. I refer more specifically about those times when I was shopping at a store when the power went out. I was able to go to the front and purchase my goods when I had cash, and when I didn't (would have used my debit card) it meant I had to leave it at the store and buy it another time.
  • Alright, on 10/10/2007, -2/+61i hope the new money is inflation proof too
    • Thex1138, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What about deflation proof?
    • crestfall, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4The Amero is all of these and more! Just wait for the campaign.
    • rarson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Are you kidding me? That's the Fed's goal, to inflate our money at a constant rate.
  • nusuni, on 10/10/2007, -2/+61Alright, who's the idiot who designed the new $5?
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21I was thinking the same thing. A giant purple "5"? What the hell is that?
      • jeremyfohferemy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11i stared at the purple five for about 2 minutes....still don't believe it's real.
      • robbiemuffin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Jeremy has a point there's gonna be a lot of press about this thing when it gets into general circulation. Many people might not believe the first one they get.

        But if a great big, high contrast 5 helps some people, then I'm all for it. I wish we printed different sized bills, like the euros.

  • doublsh0t, on 10/10/2007, -14/+3this isn't news
    • mhender, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Neither is someone opening up an iPod touch or an iPhone, but it seems to make digg top headlines every 5 minutes.
  • jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18The purple 5 is stupid, but I like the strips of the flag in the background of the 50 dollar bill.
  • unloud, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28What I don't understand is after remaining standard with the dimensions of the currency font on the new 20s and 10s they choose to make the new five with this huge ass purple "5!!!".

    Not only does it look like Monopoly money, but it simply ruins the perfectly fine consistency of our existing money for no damn reason. Why? Is there a reason for this?
    • DukeMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9To make it harder to create counterfeit money.
      • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2I don't think a giant purple number does anything to make the money harder to counterfeit. It just makes it easier for idiots to tell which bill they've pulled out of their wallet.
        • elementfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why is everyone digging him down? He's right. The gigantic "furple-five" is to help people with poor vision.
      • Camphlobactor, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1l doubt it. There's counterfeit money before it even begins circulation. Hell, North Korea's government creates duplicates of our $20 so well we have to enlarge it 100x just to tell a difference.
    • sparf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, it IS monopoly money. Hip?
    • shadowmoose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You don't want to change the way our money looks? So you like terrorists?
    • TheSabre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's for visually-impaired people. Many elderly people do carry quite a bit of fives and ones. Rarely do you see an 80-year-old grandma with a Benjamin in her purse. The big purple 5 is not an anti-counterfeit feature, it's just for distinguishing the bill. Mostly because BEP and Treasury are too stubborn to design different sized bills, so they are adding features for visually impaired.
      • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Until we see the bill we can't be sure, but I'm confident it is an anti-counterfeiting feature. It's likely color-shifting ink that goes from purple to copper, as used on 50 Euro notes and higher. If it were simply a low-vision feature they would have kept it in dark green ink, as seen on the $20
      • Xondar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Different coloured bills definitely help visually impaired people (legally blind here,) but not the colours of the new run of American bills, they're still too faded I think. The old American bills make it impossible to see what denomination is what unless I look very closely.

        I find the Canadian bills are extremely easy for me to make out. I know right away that a blue bill is $5, a green bill is $20, a red bill is $50, etc. They also have a system of raised dots (not Braille though) to help out completely blind people (what I might be one day.) I never bother with the raised dots because I find I can usually feel the numbers on the bill to tell what denomination they are; the ink is smoother and it seems to be a little raised.

        Also, not all visually impaired people are old. I'm 25 and I've been legally blind my entire life.
  • dunderballer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41Andrew Jackson looks younger than he did on the last 20 dollar bill. How does he do it?
    • OutThisLife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I got on the floor, rolled around, laughed and then my ass disappeared.
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I always thought Andrew Jackson had a huge *****' forehead on those 20s... Am I alone there?
    • LLLSecretChimp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In the attic of the US Mint, there's a $20.00 bill where the portrait of Jackson keeps getting older and more decrepit.
  • DrScott, on 10/10/2007, -10/+16"Look at all dat pink and purple."
    "Our money sure is gay."
  • kickcows, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2i've always wondered why our money is green. good to know.
    • nogami, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"The new $5 bill was just introduced and might be considered the most colorful piece of US currency ever produced."

      Yes indeed, it has bright green, dark green, faded green, yellow-green, green-brown... and purple.
  • xsquirrel378x, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0not that i will ever see any of these crisp clean bills, the guy at my local gas station always gives me the dirtiest nastiest dollar bills with blood and stuff on them.
  • zizzy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It's going to start looking like Monopoly money.
    • positron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Fast approaching an equivalent value as well
    • neodorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Always with the "Monopoly money" thing. You realize that the US is one of the last places to have such plain colored money? Why are people so resistant to change that any attempt to come into the modern age is met with scorn. I bet you hate the metric system too.
  • hagbard72, on 10/10/2007, -6/+27Go with Canadian currency. Its prettier and increasing in value. And no ugly Presidents on it.
  • perkoff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3The new 10's don't work in vending machines, I'm sure the new 5's won't either. Sucks for all those people that own vending machines, they're gonna have to upgrade them cause the government wants to make the money look different.
    • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yeah that was my first concern...
    • ikoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Why are you buying ten dollars worth of snacks? A five is the most you should conceivably use... and even that's pushing it. What are you, some kind of pork monster?
      • rarson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I just get change in ones if I need to use a vending machine.
      • aduzik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm now adding the phrase, "what are you, some kind of pork monster?" to my everyday vocabulary. Thank you, sir.
  • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Not bad, until they put in the giant purple Fisher Price number 5.

    Were they trying to make money for preschoolers? How embarassing.
    • DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Yer, I like totally wouldnt be seen dead having ugly money !?!

      ..and you wonder why your country's on the brink of collapse.

      just so you know, the colour has nothing to do with the rapidly plummeting value of it.
      • JonDee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3"..and you wonder why your country's on the brink of collapse."
        What are you talking about? We may have a few more problems making headline news than most countries, but that doesn't mean we are on the brink of collapse. There have been worse things. throughout our history, that we have pulled ourselves through. And I'm sure whatever country you hail from has had struggles in government and war as well. Besides, we are pretty confident in our understanding of what our current problems are. But, If we were to "wonder why" our country is "on the brink of collapse", since you seem to know something that we don't, please tell us so that we can take a step in the right direction.

        also, You should stop being so negative.
      • GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"Rapidly plummeting value"? Even the most paranoid conspiracy theorist in the world could see that it's not "rapidly plummeting".
      • maci01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2He's right my world is coming down around me! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Oh wait I haven't noticed any changes..
    • LLLSecretChimp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Juice boxes are big business. Preschoolers don't make a lot of money, but it's all disposable income.
  • XandraX, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Why do people hate the "monopoly money" look? It's MONEY, not art. Color helps you to easily pick out the amount that you require instead of having to look through a sea of green. Color is more practical, and in my opinion, much better looking.
    • MindTrigger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1How about you read those squiggly lines (better known as letters and numbers) to figure which bills are which. We've gotten along for decades without monopoly money, and I fail to see how this is going to make life easier. It just shows how stupid our government thinks we are, IMO.

      Now not only will you know what bills you have in your wallet, so will everyone else within 50 feet of you. Brilliant!
      • llamagorama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The age old argument between Canadian and American money has always been this: Open your wallet and, without moving the bills tell me how much you have. With Canadian money, bright blues, purples, reds and greens, I don't have to look at each individual bill to know how much it is. Isn't that more convientent? It has nothing to do with intelligence.
    • rarson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I don't get it either. It makes no sense to have all our bills look so alike. For years I wondered why foreign currencies used different colors and even different lengths for different denominations while the US just changed a few pictures and the numbers. It makes a lot of sense to add different colors to the bills. People complaining about it are just being stubborn.

      I'm just surprised they're going to the trouble when they're so close to introducing the Amero.
    • neodorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because people are lame and boring and resistant to change. Note how we are pretty much the only holdout on the metric system as well. Too ***** stubborn to admit we can improve ourselves anymore.
  • otakushark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Hire a designer that isn't colorblind. This stuff looks like hell.
    • scisam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or hire one that is, so that they can see the denominations this time around
  • ZiggityZhang, on 10/10/2007, -2/+91. Canadian dollar reaches parity with the US dollar
    2. Treasury responds to biggest problem of falling greenbacks: lack of pretty color
    3. Treasury dumps virtually all resources into redesigning money to include the next best thing, light purple and gray!
    4. Currency is released to public
    5. Profit
    • rarson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Actually, it's not profit, it's loss of value. When they print new money, that causes inflation.
  • Drgn547, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13"More secure to protect the integrity of United States currency."
    Our currency hasn't had any integrity since before the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.
    • NaciremaDream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well Said!!!
    • fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Considering every single currency in the world is now fiat currency (yes, every one), I think we are in good company.
  • alvinhokid, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1no way that purple 5 is for real... it's a different font and size... totally off scheme... no way the gvmt would do that
    on another note, if you want to see nice colorful money, check these out http://www.escapeartist.com/OREQ5/Notas_RealS.gif
    • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Have you ever actually seen US money? The $20 has had a larger, sans-serif numeral on the reverse for years (for people with poor sight), albeit without color-shifting ink. Yeah, great examples of colored money there pal. I guess the Brazilians couldn't think of 5 great countrymen so they just put the same statue on the front of all their notes. Talk about Monopoly money.
  • NeoSporin, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5The Canadian 5 dollar bill is blue and has kids playing hockey during a wonderful Canadian winter. You've got a purple 5... I guess thats cool... Ugh, who am I kidding
    • requinox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Canadian bills are also consistently designed across denominations (consistent font sizes, everyone's facing the same direction, there's a building in the middle etc.)
    • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1That sounds like crap. Your country has no history, but will be once America invades it.
      • Xondar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Your last invasion worked out real well. I'll enjoy burning down the white house again.
  • reticulate, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8You guys still use paper money?
    Australian dollars have been polymer for god knows how many years. Great for stopping counterfeits, apparently.
    • fanclerks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3And melt in dryers and microwaves if I recall correctly.
      • acceleration, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I'd rather money that melts in the off-chance I put in a microwave than money that tears easier than paper
        • LLLSecretChimp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2American "paper" money is actually printed on a cotton cloth is pretty durable. Every bill design has to pass a test where the bill is rolled up tightly and put in a capped steel tube. A solid rod is placed on top of it, and whacked with a hammer. If the bill comes out of the test unrecognizable, the design isn't used. That's why even on high-denomination bills, there's nothing like a hologram. It wouldn't survive that test. I've never seen an Australian polymer dollar. Would it survive the steel tube test?
      • daytripperOz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Which is important cos so many people like to microwave their money...
    • wikityler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's made from Tyvek.
    • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0[Bureau of Engraving and Printing official] Straus offers a more pragmatic political hurdle. "If polymer notes last four or five times longer than paper notes, the paper-banknote manufacturers face a 100 percent loss of revenues. With over 4 billion notes printed each year in the United States, that's a lot of money," he says. -http://www.polymernotes.org/articles/USA_article_p ...
    • hagbard72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2From the Bank of Canada website:

      Paper Composition

      Today's bank notes are printed on 100 per cent cotton paper. The paper-making industry has long acknowledged the superior quality of cotton-based paper over woodpulp paper. It is both more durable and more resistant to fading. For these reasons, cotton paper has been used for bank note production for several centuries.

      The Bank of Canada's first series of bank notes (1935) was printed on paper made from 75 per cent high-grade flax and 25 per cent cotton. During the Second World War, the composition changed to 25 per cent flax and 75 per cent cotton to conserve linen for the production of uniforms.

      The change to 100 per cent cotton came in 1983, to conform with Quebec environmental laws pertaining to the use of flax.
      Approximate Life of a Bank Note
      $5: 1 to 2 years
      $10: 1 to 2 years
      $20: 2 to 4 years
      $50: 4 to 6 years
      $100: 7 to 9 years
  • ndfn8, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0You mean to tell me that the color of U.S. money isn't black? Odd.
  • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Weired below the picture of the back of the new five dollar bill it states"The most noticeable difference in the redesigned $5 bill is the addition of light purple in the center of the bill"

    What about the bogging ***** purple 5 in the lower corner?! Purple? What did Larry Craig and Mark Foley design the new bill ;)
    • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1what happened to my comment? bogging?
  • DAaaMan64, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Grant looks like a bad ass on that 50
  • guythomas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The Swiss have the coolest money.
    http://www.banknotes.com/ch69.htm
    • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah and an exchange rate that KILLS
    • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're kidding me.
    • Renton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I don't know why, but for a second, I thought that was a new version of Windows.
    • Xondar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wow! Way, way too cluttered.
  • NaciremaDream, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Federal Reserve Notes / Federal Express
  • traldan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Jesus christ, America really is getting blind if the BEP feels they need to make the "low visibility" number that huge. The size on the other bills (20, 50, etc) was fine.
  • whiteyMcBrown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Changing to the notes to colour is definitely a good step to take (it makes money identifiable, much more quickly), but I think that ugly note is a bit of a misstep. There's no way they've been designing those for 3 years!
    • MindTrigger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"(it makes money identifiable, much more quickly)"

      Yeah, I'm sure muggers and thieves will appreciate being able to count how much money they are going to gank from you, while they are 100 feet away. lol
  • MindTrigger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7In 10 years we will all be spending Ameros.
  • total1337ness, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well at least there aren't rainbows on the $5 bill.
    • Destinatus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yeah, cause that'd be gay right? har har
  • shadowblade989, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4141/my10ye5.jp ...
    Designed it myself a while ago
    Took a few hours tops and I have a couple other versions with minor differences (one with the bank seal gone, one with the ten in the middle gone, one with the bank seal replaced with a smaller version of the bigger ten, etc)
  • xxyglx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why do we insist on ignoring those who are blind? Other than the USA, I only have seen the Australian way of doing it and their folding money has different sizes. Seems like a very good idea to me.
    • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Because you can't base a society around accomodating an extremely small minority. Because we can't include everyone. If you really want to make sure blind people don't get screwed, why not decree that trade can only occur with easy-to identify coins? Also, what about illiterate people? Let's get rid of the numbers on banknotes and represent their worth with little vertical slashes with a horizontal one every 5. Wait, but constantly fluctuating prices and misleading advertising disproportionately target the elderly and the stupid. So let's freeze prices and prohibit anyone changing prices without permission from a government authority. You could take this as far as you want, depending on how much you want to protect the downtrodden minority of your choice.
    • Xondar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You don't need different sizes of money for blind people. Just make features that are easy to feel. Like rougher and smoother inks on different parts of the bills and so forth.
  • lookoutforchris, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Only crap countries have funny color money. Guess we're going down the tubes.
  • shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Cana ...

    Now those are some good looking bills. And let me say that the US $10 bill is the ugliest bill I have ever seen. It looks stained.
  • acceleration, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You guys are overreacting... they have the slightest tinge of another colour in them and you call them Monopoly money (well, I admit the giant '5' is overkill). Face it, the current notes are bad and need to be updated or replaced, even more than the page suggests. I mean, a $1 note?

    Each note of our Aussie money are totally different colours and different sizes, with security features such as a little window in the corner, holographic images and really minute details (such as tiny tiny writing). Plus they're made of polymer, which is stronger (ie. won't usually tear) and lasts for much longer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Aust ...
  • brindon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I can only assume they have been trying to destroy the quintessential "look" of US currency for awhile now. First, they give all the presidents gigantic elephant-sized heads. Now, they've colored it like Canadian money. They've taken the most perfect-looking currency in the world and made it...gay.
  • j5448, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1can you say "monopoly money"?
    • DolphinGL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4monopoly money is worth more than american money
  • LStone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Given the amount of debt the US has, all American money should be red
  • DolphinGL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7American money is some of the ugliest money around and no amount of minor color highlights is going to fix it. It needs a complete overhaul.
  • erkokite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3still ass ugly.
  • Herv3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1No disrespect to other countries, but I love my money green and no other. Maybe it's because I am raised on it and I understand that, but like I said, it's all I know. Green=Money!
    • BelXul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Green? Haven't seen a green dollar since one of Lincoln's "Greenbacks". I used to have a wad of blue American certificates, but that was years ago.
  • radiofreebc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Well, now that it's Monopoly Money...it might as well look like it. This week has been great for us Canadians...first we pass your dollar, and now you're adding colour (spelled WITH the U) to your money. I remember when most Americans would joke at our coloured "funny" money.

    Not so funny now, EH?

    Just joking...we love you Americans. Now wake up and impeach your leaders before it's too late.
  • coldskool, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Ok.... how many of you tried opening in Photoshop only to get that pop up message telling you it cant be printed??
    • Yarin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I did =) I'm not allowed to print the 5$ bill.. but 50$ is fine with photoshop.
    • casual7y, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2oh wow that is so cool.

      i didnt belive you until i tried it
  • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I'll bet anything that the zeroes in the small yellow "20"s are arranged in the Eurion constellation
    • Tmax88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0sorry, i meant the zeroes in the "05"s.
  • Notsafetoeat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I can't believe no one has pointed out the fact they'll have the word Specimen written all over them!
  • vaxguru, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Still look like baseball cards with slave owners on 'em. ;)
  • notjamt9000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5And how about removing "In God we trust" from them? Acknowledging the supposed truth of a certain religion is just wrong.
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Money is for spending. They can write whatever the ***** they want on it, as long as I can still buy stuff with it. The cash isn't any good by itself.
  • DestroyFascism, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And GOd has what to do with money? Is that not a presumption?
  • Sparebear75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They are trying to disguise it as Canadian money so people might think it's worth more.
  • tvolpe78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The attempt for the US Treasury to color the money is pretty pathetic. It looks like I left the old money in the wash with a colored shirt.

    Now when the brits came out with the new 20 pound note I was amazed :
    http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve ...

    It even has raised type on it. Now that's cash!
    • struds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0thing that surprised me looking at the us money was the lack of holograms, and things that show up under uv. On people saying it looks like monopoly money, it's just because their not used to it, when i first got out one of the new bank of England £20's i spent about 5 minutes (probably an exaggeration) staring it at it thinking how stupid it looked.
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