They're trying to make it look like a euro because it's worth shit right now.

the Fed is a funny machine.

If they would just take the "SPECIMEN" stuff off it, it would actually be worth something...

haha

haha.. yeh i got one of these today.. i was.. confused at the giant magenta 5

I feel safer already.

on the positive side, it makes me think of Sesame Street.

they don't work in machines that take fives, either. which is fun.

if you look carefully, you can see the mushroom cloud and giant radioactive bees.

If you were going to counterfeit something, would it really be a five dollar bill?

absolutely, actually. counterfeit enough of them and you're set. people don't really check fives, so they'd be easy to pass off pretty much anywhere, and it's less suspicious to buy something with a bunch of fives than with a shitton of ones.

that big purple 5 just made me laugh out loud

But can't people still counterfeit the old ones?

I got one of these with an older five the other day.. other than the purple five, there are very SLIGHT differences. I wish they'd stop spending all this money on changing what ours looks like and spend it on you know. Poor people.

OK, let me explain about "seignorage." This starts off as a piece of cloth/paper with a little metal and ink thrown in, and at the end of the process -- voila! It's magically worth $5, even though it cost only a few pennies to make.

Manufacturing money is mega-profitable for the US Gov. [Everything but the penny, that is, which costs more than $0.01 to make.] The new $5 bills will apparently work much better in future vending machines, too.

It's nice work if you can get it. Casinos bring out new "collectible" chips all the time for the same reason.