The five-dollar bill is getting a makeover.

The changes are similar to those already made, starting in 2003, to the $10, $20 and $50 bills. In those redesigns, pastel colors were added as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters and their ever-more-sophisticated copying machines.

Originally, the five wasn't going to be redesigned. But that decision was reversed once counterfeiters began bleaching $5 notes and printing fake $100 bills with the bleached paper to take advantage of the fact that some of the security features were in the same locations on both notes.

Federal officials say a new, colorful bill will go into circulation on March 13th.

The note will still have a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side and the Lincoln Memorial on the other. But it will also feature purple and gray colors, a new watermark and high-tech changes to make counterfeiting more difficult.

The bureau has been printing the new bills since September, and the goal is to have 1.5 billion ready to go into circulation on March 13.

The next currency to be redesigned is the $100 bill this time next year.


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Here is a picture of the new $5.00 Bill: