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The new United States five-dollar bill

21 February 2008 Michael Szumielewski 32 Comments Money

The new US five-dollar bill

Did you know that the US $5 bill has been redesigned and will be issued on March 13, 2008? Well, it turned from green to purple, but I am sure Abraham Lincoln will not be upset The Bureau of Engraving and Printing enhanced security for the new bills, so they are harder to fake and easier to check. I recommend you to visit the official homepage so you know how to differ fake money from real U.S. currency. “Printing fake bills can be a lot more complicated then just getting a few machines and a bunch of printer cartridges like HP toner.”

You can look up the new features in a nice flash animation on portfolio.com. The new features are two new watermarks on both sides of the bill and an embedded security thread, which moved from the left of the portrait and is now located on the right side. The new $5 bill will remain the same size, but the color and images changed a bit. The color goes from a light purple in the center of the bill and blends into gray near the edges. This design update adds complexity to the bill to make counterfeiting more difficult. The Great Seal of the United States, a American symbol of freedom, has been added to the background and Lincoln’s portrait and vignette have also been changed. There are also a few other features like microprintings and of course the serial numbers.

The new money will be introduced on March 13, 2008 but of course you will not have to exchange your old $5 bills for new ones. Nevertheless, you will come across the $5 bills soon, because the “average life” of a $5 bill in circulation is 16 months before it is replaced due to wear, says the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Approximately 9 percent of all paper currency produced by the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing today are $5 bills. In fact, you can even still pay with U.S. banknotes from 1861, they are still redeemable today at full face value and will continue to be legal currency. The United States has never devalued its currency, so owning $5 bills seems like a quite sure thing to me.

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# 14 March 2008 at 9:46 am

darrel stultz said:

is this bill being re called or not or no more to be in cicurlation they have a 2006 series date

# 2 June 2008 at 4:40 am

Ed said:

If they are re calling the new $5 bill will it be a collectors item in the future because of the 2006 printing date?

# 12 June 2008 at 5:15 am

jure said:

Hilarious The design is a joke. Well, all american bills/coins are a joke.
They remind me of asian banknotes - diarrhea colors, no composition, the coins and the banknotes have no graphic connections one to another, different fonts used… and so on…

I think you should employ some european designers :p

ps - for example check new UK coins

# 12 June 2008 at 10:39 pm

tammy said:

i would like to know if the 2006 are being recalled or not, i have heard some banks are paying up to 40 dollars per each 5 dollars, other banks say they dont know anything, i have yet to find a bank that is paying the 40, but was informed from a friend in another state…

# 24 July 2008 at 10:51 pm

Charles M. Barnard said:

They’re not being recalled.

The date is not an error. Unlike coins, bills carry the date of the design, not the minting date.

They aren’t worth more than any other $5 bill in circulation.

They are, like any other Federal Reserve Note, guaranteed to be exchangeable for another similar bill, or for other Federal Reserve Notes.
They are, like all current Federal Reserve Notes, worth the paper they are printed on, or whatever someone will exchange you for it.

They are a collector’s item, but only because they are the first issue of the new design, and the first Federal Reserve Note to use digital design production.

This means that they are worth $5 now, and will possibly be worth more to collectors in the future, but there is no guarantee. It will depend upon how many of them exist later, and how many are printed.

Since the $5 bill now has the lowest life expectancy of any US currency, There will be LOTS of them printed, which will make it less likely to appreciate in value in the next couple decades.

# 31 July 2008 at 6:57 pm

Anonymous said:

whats the difference with the 5 dollar bill with the stars being all yellow

# 4 November 2008 at 2:57 am

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New design looks great!

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Pico RG said:

I just wonder, is this supposed to be the new bill that will got USA from recession. I don’t know how this will help really.

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