On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:20:45 +1100, Jeff R. wrote:

"kathy1945" wrote in message
oups.com...
Boy, some of you guys are real money snobs. The U.S. bills and coins
are primarily here to serve the purpose of commerce, and they work
pretty well. So what if a lot of them aren't worthy of framing.
That's only a secondary consideration.

So why are the Feds "colorizing" the new issues? If it ain't broke?

Stated purpose is to make them more visually distinguished from the
other; the redesign in general is to add anti-counterfieting features.
Or was that a rhetorical question?