Newly redesigned $100 bill is unveiled
 

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

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

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:)

I'm more disgusted by the crappy presentation.

HunterICX

I prefer traditional currency.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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:

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.

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:

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

So, not really? ;)