Pretty Money

There's an email going around suggesting that our paper money has been redesigned, and that the new five will look something like this:



It's not true; the design above is simply something produced by an artist named Michael Tyznik for a contest called the Dollar Rede$ign Project. Notice that in redesigning the dollar, he moved George Washington to the five-dollar bill. Tyznik's plan calls for the dollar to be replaced by a coin.

So Washington moves up to the five, Lincoln goes to the ten, Jefferson to the twenty and Jackson to the fifty. Tyznik also proposes doing away with the penny and including a new $200 bill. You can see more here.