Now they want to change the color of US currency...

[Amused]

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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Imagine opening your wallet and seeing a rainbow of dollar bills: a pale yellow $20, a baby blue $50, or maybe even a lavender Benjamin.

The idea isn't that farfetched. The U.S. Treasury Department recently testified before Congress about the need to change U.S. currency to keep ahead of growing counterfeit operations. And one security feature that may be added to the bills is what the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) terms "a subtle background color".

 

[Hossenfeffer]

I'd be fine with some changes. Green is so... drab. I need bills I can accessorize with

 

[Czar]

Welcome to Lego Land.

 

[royaldank]

as long as it's worth the same or more, I could care less what color the money is.

might be nice for a change of pace.

and my laser printer does all colors (j/k)

 

[Amused]

<< Welcome to Lego Land. >>



More like Monopoly money, if you ask me.

 

[crab]

My Visa check card is red....

 

[Linflas]

Why not? I have never understood the odd fetish my fellow Americans have regarding money. As long as I can spend it I really don't care what color it is nor what denominations are printed. I recall working as a bank teller when $2.00 bills were reintroduced. You would think Satan himself was pushing them onto an unwilling public. I personally found $2.00 bills very convenient as it required half the amount of paper as the equivalent amount of $1.00s.

 

[punkrawket]

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<< Welcome to Lego Land. >>



More like Monopoly money, if you ask me. >>

yea... i was thinking monopoly

 

[Yzzim]

Many countries have colored currency and it works for them. Would make my job as a C-Store attendant a little easier....colors are easier to sort out then numbers when you're in a hurry.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

"How about I give you a bunch of that neon toilet paper you Frenchies call money"-Duke Phillips

It should stay green.

 

[b0mbrman]

It might make i easier to tell different bills apart...but I've gotten kinda used to the green-backed currency...

 

[gopunk]

*shrug*

money is money

 

[Amused]

US currency has always set itself apart from the rest of the world. Everyone else's bills look like early twentieth century stamps to me.

 

[gopunk]

<< US currency has always set itself apart from the rest of the world. Everyone else's bills look like early twentieth century stamps to me. >>



in looks or in functionality? i'm pretty sure quite a few bills, including the EU ones, surpass ours in anti-counterfeiting measures.

 

[toant103]

i'm cool with the color

 

[SyahM]

hehhe .. i like them, more colors to my dull wallet.

 

[Miramonti]

Its about time. I think we got close to the ugliest money in the world. We're the richest country and we can't even afford to mix it up? Just another example of how the US is prejudice against color.

 

[royaldank]

<< Its about time. I think we got close to the ugliest money in the world. We're the richest country and we can't even afford to mix it up? Just another example of how the US is prejudice against color. >>



Aw come one...we gave those people best actor and best actress. Surely we are no longer prejudice.

 

[Nocturnal]

pink colored money would be nice, or perhaps do do brown would be nice!

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Speaking of currency, did anyone see ABC Downtown last night? They had a rather "informative" article about counterfeiting money using only a scanner and a PC. They didn't show all the steps but they showed more than enough to where the average joe like you and me could figure out how to make our own bills. I was quite stunned to see them go into the level of detail that they did.

 

[XZeroII]

How can you be ok with them changing our money? The US has the coolest looking money out there. I take pride in that fact. It was bad enough that they made our 100's, 50's, 20's, 10's and 5's look like monopoly money, but this is 10x worse! Besides, how much counterfitting doyou thing is actually going on, and how much do you think that changing the color is gonna help? Come on...

 

[Angrymarshmello]

<< Its about time. I think we got close to the ugliest money in the world. We're the richest country and we can't even afford to mix it up? Just another example of how the US is prejudice against color. >>



Green is a hard color to match the tint and all when it comes to counterfeiting. I honestly think this is a bad move because inexperienced people who've never seen or only seen a yellow/blue/red $50 bill could very well be accepting fake money b/c they don't know any better

 

[Miramonti]

<< How can you be ok with them changing our money? The US has the coolest looking money out there. I take pride in that fact. >>


Dude you outta travel more. If you really believe this someone should take away your tv and replace it with a b&w one. Either that or perhaps remove the cones in your eyeballs bcause you obviously don't appreciate 'em.

 

[MichaelD]

<< US currency has always set itself apart from the rest of the world. Everyone else's bills look like early twentieth century stamps to me. >>



Hey! You robbed me...I was gonna say that. j.k You are right...especially British money...those pound thingees look weird to me. It's like "hey, man, why you gotta wallet fulla stamps?" Heheheh.

It should stay green. They added all those counterfitting countermeasures a few years ago. The ghost portrait. The off-center portrait. THe line that say "twenty" or "hundred" when held up to the light, etc.

American money is green. Leave it that way.

 

[pyonir]

<< how much counterfitting doyou thing is actually going on, >>


more than you might think, the US Secret Service spends a lot of time on fighting counterfeiting.

IMO i could care less. not like i ever have any money anyway...