If you liked Harold And The Purple Crayon, boy are you going to love the new $5 bill. Lincoln’s last stand after the penny will inherit the same counterfeiting countermeasures found on more valuable bills, and will come bruised with a large purple five “to help those with visual impairments distinguish the denomination.’ That’s right, never again will you confuse a $5 bill for a $50 bill.
We match purple ties to green shirts without pause, but does the pairing work for currency? Tell us what you think in our poll, after the jump.
Your Take: New $5 Bill & The Huge Purple 5 [Blueprint For Financial Prosperity]
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Ouch, someone punched the 5 dollar bill and left it with a bruise!
I agree with an above poster, I like the old school bills and don’t buy this whole “oh we are making it look like this for the sight impaired”. Sorry, but if you put a 5 dollar bill next to a 50 dollar bill you can see the difference no matter how “mr. magoo” your sight is. Lame, very lame. At least we are’nt putting a cartoon character on the bills like the french did when they put “le petit prince” on their franc a few years back.
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Sacré Bleu!
While I would have liked for the bill to look better it’s good that it’s going to help people with vision problems.
@All Assuming It Can’t Help Those With Vision Problems: So you’re going to assume that the people who’ve already posted comments about the specific conditions this applies to are liars just because you’ve never heard of it before? It’s called Google if it’s too difficult to take someone’s word for it.
Our money is worth the same as Canadian money… they might as well look the same too.
I never get the european/foreigner argument that they can’t tell the currency apart. THERE’S A FRIGGIN NUMBER ON THE BILL! Sheesh.
@Jim (The Canuck One): The rest of our bills for those that haven’t seen them before:
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I think the choice of colour tones for the US bills leaves a lot to be desired, especially the the goofy pink $50 and the sickly orange $10.
Is it orange? I’ve always said it looked “toasted”. But now that I’m looking at one…yeah, “sickly orange” is more like it.
On another note (no pun intended)
You wanna see class? Style? Panache? Then look no further than Jackson (circa 1985):
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What’s wrong with the U.S. Mint/Treasury?!
Is this really the best design they muster?
@synergy: A foreigner would have a passport and would undoubtedly be educated enough to read. Odds are the colours are instead for the benefit of illiterate Americans.
That’s it, I’m only using $1′s from here on out.
@synergy: @KJones: Because everyone around the world uses arabic numerals? Ignorance at its finest. No wonder America is the bane of the educated world. [en.wikipedia.org]
Actually it’s worth less.
FIVE!!!!