Newly redesigned $100 bill is unveiled

[mookiemookie]

This is real - What have they done? *BARF!*

http://www.youtube.com/uscurrency#p/u/0/JwEBIC0a4RY

[Schroeder]

What have they done?
Brought it to the standards of copy protection that the rest of the world has already been using for decades?;)
(yes I know I'm mean.:O:)

[HunterICX]

I'm more disgusted by the crappy presentation.

HunterICX

[tater]

I prefer traditional currency.

I think the security should have been made invisible, or as close to that as possible.

[Weiss Pinguin]

It's like they sucked all the green out of it and then put makeup on it. :o

[razark]

I prefer traditional currency.

I think the security should have been made invisible, or as close to that as possible.

Isn't the point of the security to be noticed? If it wasn't visible, how would you notice a counterfeit bill?

[tater]

Isn't the point of the security to be noticed? If it wasn't visible, how would you notice a counterfeit bill?

Many stores now have a pen that they use to check currency under a light (black light?). They could make a scanner for the security strip.

Dunno, I see your point, but I'd prefer a subtle change.

[SteamWake]

I dont know about you guys but its not like I run around with a pocket full of those bills anyhow :haha:

Although if things continue as they are I may need some to buy a loaf of bread.

[Tribesman]

I prefer traditional currency.

By traditional do you mean coins made from precious metals or perhaps a string of beads and shells?

[mookiemookie]

Brought it to the standards of copy protection that the rest of the world has already been using for decades?;)
(yes I know I'm mean.:O:)

Hah! It just looks so cluttered and gaudy now. But like Steam Wake said - it's not like I deal with $100's on a daily basis, so it's ok. :03:

[tater]

By traditional do you mean coins made from precious metals or perhaps a string of beads and shells?

I said currency, not coinage. In the US mint, currency is paper (they have currency and coinage divisions). Sorry, I know that usage is not universal, I should have been more specific.

I meant good ole greenbacks.

As for coins, I prefer them to change infrequently.

[frau kaleun]

By traditional do you mean coins made from precious metals or perhaps a string of beads and shells?

You know in the olden days, the latter would get you a fair sized island in a conveniently located part of the New World. These days, if you're in the right place at the right time, you might get a few seconds of boobage that you won't remember the next morning because of how drunk you were when you saw it. :O:

[AVGWarhawk]

By traditional do you mean coins made from precious metals or perhaps a string of beads and shells?

Nah...all the bead and shells were spent on Manhattan a long time ago. :O: Paper money!

I do not think the blue security strip is visable on the new bill unless held to the light.

[AngusJS]

With those ribbons, holograms and watermarks, plus all the added detail in the jumbo portrait of America's homeliest Founding Father, it must cost more than $100 just to print one of those bills.

[tater]

He might have been homely, but the French chicks really dug him!

I say a full portrait with a french babe on each arm FTW. Let's make the kids want to be a Founder!

[Sailor Steve]

I think it looks kinda cool.

And French chicks liked Franklin for the same reason some women loved Kissinger - power, fame, accomplishment...

Franklin was adored in France as a scientist, philosopher, statesman, revolutionary...kind of an 18th-century movie star, except with brains.

[JSLTIGER]

Would someone please explain to me why our money becomes more and more like Monopoly money every time they redesign it? Seriously...they've now simplified the design so much it's ridiculous, and the colors make me laugh. The high tech features are nice, but the bill is horribly aesthetically displeasing, at least to me.

[Sailor Steve]

We tend to think of money as being standardized since the beginning, when in reality it has changed often.
http://www.ronscurrency.com/rhist.htm
http://www.ronscurrency.com/rcol.htm

Some interesting stuff there. Check out the 'Fractional Currency' - 50-cent, 25-cent and even 5-cent notes.

[JSLTIGER]

Oh, I know about the history of money. I'm a numismatist (coin-collector) in my spare time. I have a fairly significant collection, and with the exception of the $3, $4 pattern and $50 gold pieces, I have at least one example of every denomination made by the Mint from half-cent through $20 gold. I just think that the artistic and aesthetic standards have dropped substantially over time, especially compared to that of ~100 years ago. If you look at the coinage from the 1800s and early 1900s, much of it is very lovely as opposed to today's money. It's truly a shame what has happened to our currency.

[Weiss Pinguin]

kind of an 18th-century movie star, except with brains.
So, not really? ;)

[Sailor Steve]

So, not really? ;)
I'm missing something here. :doh: I meant that he was fawned over and worshiped. Girls followed him everywhere.

[frau kaleun]

I'm missing something here. :doh: I meant that he was fawned over and worshiped. Girls followed him everywhere.

I think he meant to imply that "movie star" and "with brains" are mutually exclusive. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

That's why I said "except".

Why do I get the feeling I'm digging myself into a deeper and deeper hole here?

[Weiss Pinguin]

That's why I said "except".

Why do I get the feeling I'm digging myself into a deeper and deeper hole here?
Haha, I know what you meant :p2:


http://www.ladders-direct.com/img/pages/fullsize/timber-step-ladder-ts.jpg
Just in case you need it ;)

[Schroeder]

you might get a few seconds of boobage...

Cool, I learned a new word!:yeah:
Unfortunately I can't find it in my dictionary. I guess I'll ask Dowly what it means.:D

[AVGWarhawk]

I just think that the artistic and aesthetic standards have dropped substantially over time, especially compared to that of ~100 years ago. If you look at the coinage from the 1800s and early 1900s, much of it is very lovely as opposed to today's money. It's truly a shame what has happened to our currency.

I will give my best educated guess....way back when before nice security paper and halograms, etc. using intricate patterns and artistic renderings were perhaps the best for security against counterfeit monies. Over time with the new security devices used why bother to make nice intricate artistic pieces?

[Jimbuna]

I thought it looked fine....it should stand out a lot more than the $110 bills I had at the Houston SS Meet...they simply blended in with the other donominations.

All the bills being the same size probably didn't help either :DL

[Sailor Steve]

Say WHAT???

No wonder you were so willing to float me that loan! And no wonder I kept getting those calls from the Treasury Department!

Dadgum frazza-razza mober-sober...here we go again!

[tater]

I'll stop using cash altogether if the bills ever become different sizes. What a PITA that would be.

[Jimbuna]

Say WHAT???

No wonder you were so willing to float me that loan! And no wonder I kept getting those calls from the Treasury Department!

Dadgum frazza-razza mober-sober...here we go again!

Bloody bugga damnation!!! :damn:

Looked at your reply and had to read my earlier post a few times before I realised my mistake :DL

[Schroeder]

I'll stop using cash altogether if the bills ever become different sizes. What a PITA that would be.
Just the opposite. You know exactly what note you have in hand even before removing it from your wallet.
When I was in the States I found the dollar to be a PITA: All notes had the same color and the same size.:dead:

[Jimbuna]

I'll stop using cash altogether if the bills ever become different sizes. What a PITA that would be.

Actually, we have different size bills here in the UK (not sure if they all differ....wallet is a little light at the mo) so we've never known any different.

It's the different cplours of each of our bills/notes that I think differentiates them from one another the most.

[Sailor Steve]

Bloody bugga damnation!!! :damn:
:rotfl2:

I thought you were making a joke. Didn't realize it was a typo.:haha::har:

[Jimbuna]

:rotfl2:

I thought you were making a joke. Didn't realize it was a typo.:haha::har:

I seldom joke about money :nope:

I often cry over it but seldom joke :DL

New UK note due out soon...in different sizes too :yeah:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5816/50large.gif (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/50large.gif/)

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6328/50small.gif (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/50small.gif/)

[Platapus]

Personally, I would not care if the bill just had computer text and anti-counterfeiting stuff on them. To me, it is a tool of commerce. A tool I hardly use these days.

I can't remember anytime in the last 10 years when I carried a 100 dollar bill. :nope:

I would also like to see the printed on different materials than paper. Paper wears out quickly and is easily torn and dirtied.

[Jimbuna]

Money is actually one of the dirtiest materials the skin on your hand ever comes into contact with.

Give it all to me and save yourselves the bother :DL

[Platapus]

Money is actually one of the dirtiest materials the skin on your hand ever comes into contact with.

Give it all to me and save yourselves the bother :DL

Then why is money laundering a crime? :D

[Spoon 11th]

Series 1999.

http://homepage.mac.com/jdalisay/blog/user_files/washington.jpg

[Thresher]

You can't fundamentally transform America into the Euro-Socialist model without pretty money!

[frau kaleun]

http://epicwinftw.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ve3vj1.jpg?w=500&h=365

[Weiss Pinguin]

I will give my best educated guess....way back when before nice security paper and halograms, etc. using intricate patterns and artistic renderings were perhaps the best for security against counterfeit monies. Over time with the new security devices used why bother to make nice intricate artistic pieces?
My answer to that is, since we mass produce the bills anyways, why not bother? It's not like someone has to create each and every bill by hand. But that's just my 2 cents.