The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 34, August 26, 2007, Article 10

BEP TO UNVEIL NEW U.S. FIVE DOLLAR BILL DESIGNS SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Dick Johnson forwarded an article on the upcoming new designs for
the U.S five dollar note:

"The world will get its first look at a more colorful Abraham
Lincoln next month and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is
planning for it to be a high-tech event.

"Bureau Director Larry Felix said for the first time the bureau
was staging a digital unveiling for one of its redesigned currency
notes. The new $5 bill, which features the 16th president, will be
shown to the world by way of an Internet broadcast on Sept. 20
which the government has dubbed a "Wi-5" event.

"'We wanted to make the most of the digital environment so that
U.S. currency users will have worldwide access to all of the
information we can give them,' Felix said in an interview with
The Associated Press.

"The event will be hosted at the bureau's web site, which will
offer a variety of materials on the new $5 bill including the
new design starting on Sept. 20. In addition, there will be an
online question and answer session for reporters with officials
from the bureau and other government agencies participating.

"Originally, the government was going to exempt the $5 bill from
the design makeovers introduced in recent years for the $50, $20
and $10 bills.

"But officials changed their minds after counterfeiters began
bleaching the ink off the current $5 bills and printing fake
$100 bills on the bleached paper because certain security features
including the watermark were in basically the same place on both
notes.

"The new $5 bill will have similar design changes as have been
added to the other notes in an effort to thwart counterfeiters
armed with more sophisticated computers and printers."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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