Why Are Dollar Bills Green?

Why are dollar bills green? And why do other countries have different colors for different amounts, and we don't? As i pondered this question, a shadowy figure, a long lost character from the past. He used to host this podcast. Now he's off host in a show called what's your problem? It was jacob goldstein. Why is our money green? So the green dollar goes back to the civil war, back to the mid 18 hundreds. At the time, it was actually a weird, rare thing for the government to print paper money.