Newly redesigned $100 bill is unveiled

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

kind of an 18th-century movie star, except with brains.

So, not really?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

So, not really?

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

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm missing something here. 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.

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

you might get a few seconds of boobage...

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

[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

[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.