New $100 Bill: A Moving Experience
By Tom Shoop | Monday, August 27, 2007 | 10:26 AM
By Tom Shoop | Monday, August 27, 2007 | 10:26 AM
The $100 bill is changing again, and this time it's going really high-tech, AP reports. New microprinting techniques will result in an image of Benjamin Franklin that seems to move up or down or side to side when the bill itself is moved.
The new bill is expected to go into circulation late next year.
Comments
Will the picture of Franklin lose his jacket and shirt when the bill is turned upside down? Or are they holding that for the next generation?
Ted Bean | Thursday, August 30, 2007 | 01:01 PMEnd this madness! Convert to coins, they last longer, very difficult to conterfit, and can you see a drug dealer toting $100,000 in $20 "gold pieces". I think he would need a little help. Most of the US economy is going to plastic, ATMs and Debit cards, so why keep the pretense?
Richard Black | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | 08:33 AMWhat is the point of constantly "improving" our currency when they never produce enough of the "improved" bills to replace the old ones? We have several versions of each bill already in place, all of which are perfectly valid forms of currency. Indeed, there are still tons of 1985 series 100-dollar bills out there in circulation! Therefore, if someone counterfeits an older version of a given bill, who is going to question it?
Scott | Monday, August 27, 2007 | 11:51 AMOh, goody.
Stephen | Monday, August 27, 2007 | 11:12 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
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