THE NEW LOOK OF LINCOLN

DAMIAN WHITWORTH

The Times

 

WASHINGTON - Nowadays even passed aways presidents may be submited to a face lift surgery. The United State Treasure received a huge amount of telephone calls from intrigated cititzens twith the new apperence of Abraham Lincoln  Alexander Hamilton on the new redesigned US$ 5 and US$ 10, the conclusion is that they were undergone a plastic surgery.

Abraham Lincoln - He never was considered a handsome man and also he never bills; looked well in the dol US$ 5 bills - suddenly he appeared with a retouched face and with a politician look very conveniently modified. The bear seems to be groomed anyone may realize that a hair implant has being done. 

 

Alexander Hamilton, the right-arm from George Washington during the American Revolution had a fatigued face with wrinkles in the US$ 10, bill as all insone nights. Did federal crisis had left theirs marks. Now he doesn't show any wrinkles in his front head, nor his face or lips look bad. His eyes looks clear, his face is soft, the nose is noble. He also suggest a subtle smile. 

 

NewsWeek magazine went to one of many of plastic surgeons residing in New York city in order to figure it out how much Lincoln and Hamilton would have to spend by this service.  Lincoln would have to pay  US$ 14.100(2820 Lincolns,...), US$ 600 for the nose job. Furthermore the uplift for  Hamilton would cost US$ 28.600, (or 2.860 Hamiltons bills).

 

Naturally they should thanks to the personnel from the Printing and Engraving Departmant for their new and better look. These new drawings were part of couter measures against counterfeit bills, that add up a total of US$ 180 millions in 1998. The engravers used the same pictures that were based the old bills, but admittedn some times we took freedom, retouching some points."

 

Circulation adds up to US$ 500 billions. Each US$ 5 bill spend two years in circulation, in average, and the US$ 10 bill by three year. All those modifications were done after the changes applied to the US$ 20 bill, with Andrew Jackson face, two years ago. The seventh president of the United States had white hars and looked too thin, but was transformed in a bright looking healthy man, with long hairs. Meanwhite the strange and unproportional size of his head in the new bills a rose suspicions of it's validity.

 

The bad news for George Washington, looking definitely well in the one dollar bill, is that there is no plans whatsoever to his retouch, his appearance, mainly because there is no problems with counterfaiting bills with this face value.