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]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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.)

[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.

[razark]

Originally Posted by tater

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]

Originally Posted by razark

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

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

I prefer traditional currency.

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

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

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.)

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.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

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]

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.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

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. 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!