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America's money may come in a rainbow of colors in 2003
By Bankrate.com
 Washington
is considering changing the color of our money.
By 2003, U.S. bank notes may no longer
be green and black, but come in the colors of the rainbow.
So good ol' greenbacks could become redbacks,
bluebacks, orangebacks and yellowbacks. Autumnmistbacks? Click
here to see how we think
colored $5s and $10s might look.
"Colored money would be fascinating,"
says U.S. Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow. "We have run
some tests on our new press to see what it can do and worked
with it a little bit."
No color choices have even been suggested
yet, she said.
But one thing will stay the same -- all
the new bills will be the same size as they are today.
Withrow said the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing had thought about changing the
bills so that each denomination was a different size, but
the idea had been rejected.
Tinting the notes is just one of the changes
under consideration by the bureau for the next generation
of money, but most of the changes will be technology-based.
The changes are primarily there to foil
increasingly crafty, computer-armed counterfeiters.
"The designs of the new generation
of money are still being discussed," says Edward Sheehan,
manager of the external affairs division of the bureau. "Nothing
has been decided yet."
So, what do you think?
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