"WASHINGTON -- Sprinkled with pastel colors and armed with new features to thwart counterfeiters, the latest version of the $5 bill went into circulation Thursday with a gift-shop purchase at President Lincoln's newly renovated summer cottage at the Soldiers' Home.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln remains front and center on the new bill, and the image of the Lincoln Memorial is still on the To honor the 16th president, Federal Reserve Board Assistant Director Michael J. Lambert undertook the first transaction by buying a book of Lincoln's speeches for $2.88."-LAT
